Clear all information from the hard drive before recovering the computer.
CAUTION: If additional drives have been installed, disconnect the power and data cables from the additional drives. This is necessary to prevent possible data loss on the extra hard drives.
NOTE: This procedure requires that you have a set of User-Created Recovery Discs (UCRDs) or Support-Sent Recovery Discs (SSRDs). Also, the Manufacturer Menu may not be available on all models. The Manufacturer Menu is not available from System Recovery Manager when booting from the hard drive.
Turn on the computer, insert the first recovery disc into the first (top) optical drive, and then turn off the computer again (press and hold the power button).
Turn on the computer and wait for the inital logo screen to appear.
The next screen should be blank with a cursor blinking in the upper left corner of the screen. When the cursor drops one line immediately press and hold the Ctrl
key, and momentarily press the Backspace
key.
The Manufacturer Menu opens. If not, try again. If you cannot open the manufacturer menu, it may not be available.
<1> clear the partition table of drive 1
<2> erase the Master Boot Record of drive 1
<3> wipe all sectors of drive 1
<S> Save DMI Sysinfo to drive 1
Select option clear the partition table of drive 1
.
The screen goes black displaying a blinking cursor. After a few seconds the Recovery Manager screen opens.
Click Cancel
on the Recover Manager screen to restart the computer
Turn on the computer and repeat step 3 to open the Manufacturer Menu.
Select option erase the Master Boot Record of drive
.
The screen goes black displaying a blinking cursor. After a few seconds the Recovery Manager screen opens.
Click Cancel
on the Recover Manager screen to restart the computer
Turn on the computer and repeat step 3 to open the Manufacturer Menu.
Select option wipe all sectors of drive
.
An Erasing Hard Drive
progress bar displays at the bottom of the screen. All data on the hard drive is erased and replaced with new data. This process can take a considerable amount of time, depending on installed RAM, the size of the hard drive, hard drive speed, CPU speed, etc... (approximately 250 GB per hour).
After the hard drive is erased the Recovery Manager screen opens. Read and respond to the screens to complete a system recovery.