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[. . . ] Ditto Tape Drive Installation Ditto Tools Software Installation User's Guide Easy internal installation demonstrated on your Ditto Tools CD! (see page 13) Iomega Corporation 1821 West Iomega Way Roy, Utah 84067-9977 © Iomega Corporation 1998 03151100 Using this Guide You now have a Ditto tape drive that's going to help you back up and organize all your stuff!And, if you are installing an internal tape drive, you won't want to miss our installation video (found on the Ditto Tools CD)!Installation can be a breeze after viewing this helpful step-by-step video. "Read the instructions?I'd rather watch a video!" Easy internal installation demonstrated on your Ditto Tools CD! (see page 13) 3 Table of Contents Installing Your Ditto Tape Drive Installing Your External Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Also review "Solving Problems" in Using Your Ditto Tape Drive section of this guide. 36 Hardware and Software Configuration There are a few simple reasons why your tape drive may not be detected by your system. If your parallel port drive is not detected, refer to the "Solving Problems" section under Using Your Ditto Tape Drive in this guide. If you installed an internal tape drive with a Ditto Dash DX or Ditto Dash accelerator card and the system cannot detect the drive, you may be experiencing conflicts in the DMA, IRQ, and I/O addresses for the card. Refer to the "Solving Problems" section under Using Your Ditto Tape Drive in this guide. Backup and Recovery When using Windows NT and Iomega Backup software to back up your data, you are choosing to safeguard your data from that ultimate disaster­a hard drive failure. This section explains the backup strategy plan that will help you recover lost data in the event your hard drive fails. The plan is not difficult to follow, however, it requires consistency on your part. 1 Before every backup job, you must run the NT system program RDISK. The RDISK program records your system's registry information (for example, configuration data and all the user preferences you've set). If this information is current and available on a backup tape, restoring the data on the tape after a hard disk failure will restore all the configuration and user preferences. The backup tapes will contain your latest full backup and any differential or incremental backups you have made. If you do these two things, you will be prepared to follow the Disaster Recovery Instructions in the event of a hard disk failure. Run RDISK Before Every Backup 1 2 3 4 5 To start RDISK, select Run from the Start menu. Choose Yes when asked "Do you want to continue this operation?" Choose No when asked "Do you want to create an Emergency Repair disk?" (Your information will be on the backup tape after you run a backup. ) 6 Click Exit. 7 Run your regularly scheduled backup using 1-Step Backup or The Works. 37 Disaster Recovery Instructions Use the instructions below to restore data after a hard disk failure. 1 Replace all damaged hardware and format the destination drive properly. (Reference your Windows NT manual for help. ) 2 Boot up your computer with the Windows NT system disk in your floppy drive (or in your CD-ROM drive if you have a bootable CD-ROM drive). 3 Follow all the instructions to reinstall Windows NT and reboot the machine when prompted. After the reboot, your main screen will look like a generic version of Windows NT without any of the preferences you had set up before. 4 Install Iomega Backup NT as instructed in the Iomega Backup NT Software Installation Guide. 6 When the machine has finished rebooting, start The Works program in the Iomega Backup NT program group. 7 Insert the tape that contains your last full backup into the tape drive. 8 Select Configuration from the Utilities menu and verify that the installed tape drive is recognized. If no tape drive is listed, manually add the tape drive, following the on-screen instructions. 9 Now select Options from the File menu and click on the Error Handling tab. 10 On the Error Handling page, deselect error prompting, then click Close. [. . . ] Over time, our support options may change to take advantage of evolving technology and global changes across the computer industry. This section of the manual contains information on the support options available at the time this manual was prepared. For up-to-date support information, contact Iomega's Home Page on the World Wide Web. On-line Help File The Iomega Backup software contains an on-line help file with index and find options that can speed your search for information. [. . . ]