HP VL400, PC Image Engineer, mage Library & Diagnostics System CD-ROM User Manual
HP
PC Image Engineer
Image Library & Diagnostics
System CD-ROM
User’s Guide
Image Library & Diagnostics
System CD-ROM for
Vectra VL400
and e-Vectra
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About This Manual
This manual is intended for PC users or systems administration
personnel. A knowledge of Microsoft operating systems as well as
software deployment tools is required. If using Windows NT or
Windows 2000 operating systems, you must have administrator
privileges.
This manual provides guidelines for using the HP Image Library &
Diagnostics system CD-ROM software, which is part of the HP PC
Image Engineer software.
Acronyms
The following terms are sometimes used in this manual for brevity, to
replace the full description:
OOOOSSSS Operating System
IIIICCCCRRRR Image Creation and Recovery CD-ROM
IIIILLLLDDDD Image Library and Diagnostics System CD-ROM
CCCCDDDD Compact Disc (Optical data disc)
Contents
About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
1 Introduction
Your Preloaded Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Full Recovery of Preloaded Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
What is the Image Library & Diagnostics System CD-ROM? . . . . . .
HP PC Image Engineer Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Running Image Library from the CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Running e-Diag Tools from the CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Getting Started
The Image Library & Diagnostics System CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Image Library Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Language Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Operating System Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Starting and Using the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 Installing Drivers and Utilities Automatically
How to Perform a Recovery of Drivers and Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4 Troubleshooting and Support
Troubleshooting
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Obtaining the Latest Versions of Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . .
Additional Information and Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Legal Information
HP Software Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HP Software License Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction
The Image Library and Diagnostics System CD-ROM and its use in the
recovery of HP preloaded software.
Your Preloaded Software
Your HP PC is delivered with preloaded software already in place on
the hard disk. This includes the operating system, all the correct
drivers for your hardware, plus special HP utilities to support you if you
should run into difficulties at any time during the working life of the
PC.
To provide a secure backup against software corruption, the entire
preloaded system can be restored using the HP CD-ROMs provided
with your PC. These utilities permit a rapid trouble-free restart should
you ever need to reinstall your operating system, drivers and/or HP
utilities.
Full Recovery of Preloaded Software
Two steps to carry out a complete reinstallation of all preloaded
software on your PC:
1 Use the Image Creation and Recovery CD-ROM to restore the
operating system (and HP disk partition). Refer to the
documentation on the Image Creation and Recovery CD-ROM for
details
2 When the OS is reinstalled and running, use the Image Library and
Diagnostics CD-ROM to reinstall the specific drivers, HP
applications and utilities.
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What is the Image Library & Diagnostics
System CD-ROM?
The Image Library & Diagnostics (ILD) System CD is a CD-ROM that
contains drivers and HP utilities for HP PCs. The drivers and utilities
are packaged to enable you to perform automatic installations on local
PCs. A friendly user-interface simplifies this process.
The ILD CD-ROM also contains a diagnostic package called HP
e-DiagTools for hardware diagnostics. You can run it by booting your
PC from the CD to perform hardware diagnostics.
This User’s Guide describes the Image Library section of the ILD CDROM, and the User Interface, and explains how to use it to select and
load software.
In addition, start-up notes on e-DiagTools are included to make clear
the operation of the CD. HP e-DiagTools are fully documented
elsewhere.
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HP PC Image Engineer Products
The Image Library & Diagnostic CD is one part of HP PC Image
Engineer solutions. The HP PC Image Engineer suit comprises these
products:
Image Creation and Recovery CD-ROM
Image Library (Administrator version) CD-ROM
Image Library and Diagnostics System CD-ROM
Image Transition Tool
Image Creation and Recovery CD-ROM
This CD-ROM is provided with most new HP PCs. It contains on-line
documentation fully explaining its use. With the latest, full-featured
version, you can:
Recover the operating system
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Set disk partitioning parameters
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Upgrade or downgrade the operating system (to the alternative
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provided on the CD-ROMs)
Browse the operating system master files
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The ICR CD-ROM can be used in cases where you must reinstall
your operating system and other software, after reformatting your
hard disk. This may be useful when you can not guarantee the
integrity of you software, for instance due to virus infection.
Image Library and Diagnostics System CD-ROM
This CD-ROM is the subject of the present Guide. It is included with
your PC for most models and language versions. The ILD CD-ROM
is used to carry out automated software recovery and/or diagnostics
on single PCs:
Recover all drivers, applications and HP utilities
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Recover individual drivers
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Run HP e-DiagTools, the hardware diagnostics utilities
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Image Transition Tool
The Image Transition Tool is a CD-ROM software utility to help you
adapt an existing PC’s disk image to a new HP PC. Check availability
with your HP supplier, or on HP websites.
Image Library (Administrator version) CD-ROM
This is a full ‘Administrator Version’ of the Image Library, and is
intended for MIS, IT, or system administration personnel. The
administrator version will perform automatic installations on local
PCs, and additionally provides software packages in other formats,
so that a server may be updated to perform remote installation
using your own deployment or maintenance solution, Microsoft
SMS2.0, or HP TopTools. For detailed information on this package,
refer to the Image Library: System Administrator’s Guide on the
Image Library Administrator Version CD-ROM.
When should I use Image Library (Administrator version)?
The Image Library (Administrator version) CD-ROM is for use in the
following cases only:
with SMS 2.0 for installation of SMS packages,
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with a compatible proprietary loader to install the Automatic
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Packages,
with TopTools for maintenance (only) using the TopTools Driver
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Update Packages
In any other situation, the Image Library and Diagnosis System CDROM provides the correct version of Image Library.
NOTE Not all the Image Engineer products are packaged with each PC.
NOTE The range of language versions available may vary between tools.
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