HDSafe NetPower Recovery NetPower Recovery LAN Card User's Manual

User’s Manual

HDSafe™ NetPower Recovery LAN Card

HDSafe™ Technology CO., LTD

http://www.HDSafecard.com

Tel: 86-591-3385081

Fax: 86-591-3706139

175 West Erhuan Road

Fuzhou, Fujian

P.R.C

350002

HDSafe™ http://www.HDSafecard.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Copyright ..............................................................................................2

Important Notice for Users ..................................................................2

Chapter 1 Introduction ......................................................................3

1-1 Scope of application .....................................................................3

1-2 Features .....................................................................................3

Chapter 2 Installation ........................................................................6

2-1 System requirements....................................................................6

2-2 Before Installation:.......................................................................6

2-3 Installation..................................................................................6

2-3-1 Installation of recovery card...................................................6

2-3-2 Installation the driver for Windows2000/NT/XP.........................7

Chapter 3 Using HDSAFE™ .................................................................8

3-1 Definitions of terms ......................................................................8

3-2 Operation Wizard .........................................................................9

3-2-1 Main Menu ..........................................................................9

3-2-2 Configuration Menu ............................................................ 10

3-2-3 How to set protection.......................................................... 10

3-2-4 How to set the system parameters........................................ 11

3-2-5 How to modify the password ................................................ 12

3-2-6 How to backup CMOS data................................................... 13

Chapter 4 Uninstall .......................................................................... 14

4-1 Uninstall HDSafe™ Card .............................................................. 14

4-2 Uninstall HDSafe™ Card physically ............................................... 14

4-3 Uninstall the driver:.................................................................... 14

Chapter 5 Set Multi-Boot.................................................................. 15

5-1 Set Multi-Boot ........................................................................... 15

5-2 Install Software in Multi-Boot Partitions......................................... 15

Chapter 6 NetCopy ........................................................................... 16

5-1 Precondition .............................................................................. 16

5-2 Work Flow................................................................................. 16

5-3 Operation Wizard ....................................................................... 17

5-3-1 Act as Sender .................................................................... 17

5-3-2 Act as Receriver ................................................................. 21

5-3-3 Remote Control .................................................................. 22

Chapter 7 FAQs ................................................................................ 24

7-1 General Questions:..................................................................... 24

7-2 Installation Questions ................................................................. 26

7-3 NetCopy Questions..................................................................... 27

Appendix：File List of driver disk ....................................................... 28

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Copyright

HDSafe Technology Co., Ltd has the authority to alter the content of this manual at any time without prior notification. Except as noted, all companies, persons, materials mentioned in this manual are fictitious. No part of this manual shall be reproduced or translated by any means without the express written permission of HDSafe Technology Co., Ltd.

HDSafe Technology Co., Ltd owns or has applied for patents covering the intellectual property rights contained in its application, trademark, copyright and files.

Important Notice for Users

Before you install HDSafe™ NetPower Recovery LAN Card, please do backup all of your important files and ensure that it is stored separately. HDSafe

Technology Co., Ltd shall not be liable for any damage resulted from the installation of HDSafe™ recovery card.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Computer brings us conveniences along with vexations. If you operate computers by mistake, shutdown them abnormally, or infect them by virus, computers may strike with a lot of blue screens. For those computers in schools and public places, no one can avoid sufferings from illegal operations and even malicious disturbance. You may often find those system files that should exist disappeared but rubbish files appeared everywhere.

Cases infected by virus are common occurrences. Administrators have to kill virus and even reinstall operating system as their daily routine.

Now everything is OK with HDSafe™ Recovery LAN Card. After plugging it into a free PCI expansion slot and simply reboot, the computer thereupon has an "robust body" to protect your system and data from unexpected wrong operation and viruses, now you can try many dangerous operations (delete, format, FDISK, uninstall, etc.) which you may do with extraordinary care before. With a single reboot, the destroyed system will be back and recovered to the normal status.

1-1 Scope of application

Single PC user Market:

Protects PC HD data Even OS is destroyed, everything will go back by a single re-boot.

Prevent Virus destroy the OS

Prevent OS destroyed by accidental file deletion

Enterprise Market:

Internet coffee shops, Computers classrooms, administration and training centers.

No need to worry about any setting being change by another people.

Best tool for network and system administrators, all troubles will disappear once reset.

Prevent Virus destroy the OSs.

Education Market:

Computers classrooms and administration.

Allow students to operate even the most dangerous system command. Don't worry about the OS being destroyed.

OS protected by HDSafe™ Recovery Card, classroom administrators will not waste time in maintenance any longer.

1-2 Features

Express installation and Keep Original Data

Quick and easy installation with three

Enter

keys. The original OS, application programs and data in drive C: and all extended data partition D:, E:, F:... will keep

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unchanged.

Integrated Software with Hardware

The recovery software is integrated with a PCI expansion card which can not be destroyed by any kind of software operation.

Instant Protection

Immediate installation provides immediate protection without repartitioning the hard disk or reinstalling the operating system.

Protection Range Configurable

Users can con which partitions should be protected, allowing more flexible protection.

CMOS Protection

Intelligent CMOS protection ensures your setting is correct. A warning message will be given as soon as any change of CMOS occurs.

Outstanding Protection and Recovery

Even with a damaged operating system, HDSafe™ Recovery Card can still function properly.

Authorization Management

Provides password management, and allows administrators or users to operate and manage according to different requirements.

Uninstalling Function

HDSafe™ Recovery Card is capable of uninstalling and won’t damage the data stored in the hard disk after uninstall. The hard disk will return to the status of the most recent data saving or installation. Users do not have to worry about potential damages after uninstall.

Virus Protection

If your computer is invaded by any kind of virus, once recovery is being operated, all viruses will disappear.

Data Saving

HDSafe™ Recovery Card can save stable status to protect the data.

Instant Recovery

Recovery speed is beyond your imagination. All data will be recovered just in a blink.

Various Recovery Mode

HDSafe™ Recovery Card provides various recovery modes to meet your various requirements, such as non-recovery, automatic recovery, manual recovery, scheduled recovery and data saving.

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Minimum Hard Disk Space for Installation

HDSafe™ Recovery Card requires only 0.5% of hard disk space for installation, which is significantly better than reserving 200MB for recovery system of Windows and

10-20% of other recovery relative hardware/software tools.

Supports All Windows Operating Systems

HDSafe™ Recovery Card supports Windows9x/Me, Windows NT/ 2000 and Windows

XP.

Supported File Formats

HDSafe™ Recovery Card supports BIGDOS, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.

Supported Hard Disks

Supports SCSI, EIDE, IDE hard disks with different capacity. Also ATA33, ATA66 and

ATA100 are supported.

Integrated With Full Functioned 10/100M LAN Card

Access Method CSMA/CD,10Mbps and 100Mbps

Standard

Conformance

PC Clock

IEEE802.3 10Base-T, IEEE802.3u 100Base-TX

Up to 33MHz

Data Bus Width 32-bit

I/O Address Automatically determined by configuration space

Interrupt level Mapping BIOS IRQ Setup

Number of Ports Single UTP/STP port

Network Media

(Cable)

10Base-T: UTP category 3, 4, 5 cable up to 100m100Base-TX:

UTP category 5 cable up to 100m

Drivers Support

Microsoft WFW3.11/Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP;Novell

NetWare3.X/4.X/5.X;OS2 ODI; FTP PC/TCP; Sun PC-NFS; Linux;

SCO UNIX

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Chapter 2 Installation

2-1 System requirements

CPU: 486 or above

Memory: 16M or more

Hard-disk: IDE, EIDE and SCSI

2-2 Before Installation:

Please make sure that your computer meets the aforementioned system requirements.

Please make sure that the hard disk is partitioned with standard FDISK rather than

Partition Magic or other partition tools, otherwise, you’ll have to repartition it.

If a similar product has been installed, please remove it and its drivers.

Scan and kill viruses with anti-virus software.

Defrag in order to regroup the hard disk drive.

Backup all the useful data, application program and operating system for security reason just in case of the failure of installation of HDSafe™.

2-3 Installation

2-3-1 Installation of recovery LAN card

Turn off your computer.

Open the cabinet of the computer and insert HDSafe™ Recovery Card into one of free PCI slots on the motherboard. Please ensure that it is securely inserted into the bottom.

Closed the cabinet and turn on your computer.

Check the setting of CMOS to make sure the parameters of HD are correct:

If there is “Boot From LAN First” or similar item, please set to “Enable”.

Disable the “Virus Warning” item in CMOS setting.

Restart your PC, an Installation Screen will be displayed as screen 1. Select

Install Later.

Boot your PC normally, and install the LAN Card driver for the specific OS. The LAN

Card drivers are located on the Driver Disk. You can download the LAN Card drivers for your specific OS from www.hdsafecard.com

.

Restart your PC, on Installation Screen, press

Install Now

if you want to install

HDSafe™ right now; select

Install Later

if you want to install later; or select

Set

MultiBoot

if you want to set multi-boot for this computer.

Press

Enter

three times will install HDSafe™ expressly with default configurations.

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HDSafe Recovery LAN Card Ver. 5.0

INSTALLATION

Press

Enter

key 3 times to install HDSafe with default settings http://www.hdsafecard.com

Install Later Install Now

(Screen 1)

Set MultiBoot

If you select

Install Now

, a Configuration Menu will be displayed as follow:

CONFIGURATION

Set Protection

Set Parameters

Change Password

Backup CMOS

NetCopy

Uninstall

Exit

(Screen 2)

Select

Exit

in the Configuration Menu.

Select

OK

in the following screen to confirm Exit. You can configure the card before Exit. For more details please refer to Chapter 3.

CONFIGURATION

Exit Configuration ?

OK CANCEL

The computer will reboot automatically. So far, you have finished the installation of the HDSafe™ Recovery LAN Card.

Notice:

When press

Enter

three times to install HDSafe™ expressly, only drive C: is set to be protected by default. If you want to protect other drives such as D, E, F, please refer to Chapter 3.

2-3-2 Installation the Recovery Driver for Windows2000/NT/XP

Boot the computer with Windows2000/NT/XP.

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Run Netpower setup in the driver disk or CD supplied with the product or downloaded from our website.

Reboot your computer to finish the installation of the driver.

Notice: 1.

Normally no extra driver is needed under Windows9x/Me. In case a “Can not load HDMC.VXD” error message appears when boot Windows9x/Me, or a warning mark exist before IDE controller in device list of control panel, please run Setup9x.exe in the driver disk or CD supplied with the product or downloaded from our website.

2. The driver could also be installed before inserting the card into slot.

Chapter 3 Using HDSAFE™

3-1 Definitions of terms

Protected Mode: General operators such as students are recommended to use this mode. All useful data, files or programs set to be protected will be protected under this mode. All modification of the protected data will be recovered after

Restore Data Operation executed.

Open Mode: The data in hard disk is not protected under this mode, the operator can really install, uninstall, upgrade and etc. even the drive is set to be protected.

Configuration: system administrator can adjust working mode, parameters and other settings by this operation.

Save Changes: If useful data are created under protected mode and need to be saved, you can perform this operation to save the changes you made after last saving.

Note: There are five superior operations that need password:

Save Changes

Configure the card (include Uninstall)

Restore Data under “Manual with Password” recovery mode

Boot the computer with “Open mode”

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3-2 Operation Wizard

3-2-1 Main Menu

When boot a computer with HDSafe™ card installed, the Main Menu will appear:

HDSafe Recovery LAN Card Ver. 6.0

Time remain: x Sec.

(Resource Used: xx %)

F1

About

F2

Configuration

F3

Protect

(

F4

Recovery )

Enter

Proceed with Protected Mode

Esc

Proceed with Open Mode

(Screen 3)

Press

F1

to learn the brief information about HDSafe™ recovery card

Press

F2

to enter Configuration Menu

(Screen 2)

Press

F3

to save the changes you made after last saving.

F4

will only available when the Recovery Mode is set to Manual or Manual with

Password. Press

F4

to recover your protected drive.

Press

Esc

, the following confirmation screen

(Screen 4)

will appear:

HDSafe Card

You are about to enter Open Mode, data on

The hard disk will not be protected until

Shutdown or restart. All the data changes

Will be saved as the permanent data

OK

(Screen 4)

You can really delete, modify or format etc under open mode.

If you make changes to the protected area under Open Mode, when you reboot the PC next time, following screen will appear before Main Menu

(Screen 3)

:

HDSafe Recovery Card Ver. 6.0

Analysing …

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(Screen 5)

Press

Enter

to proceed with protected mode. All changes you make to the hard disk set to be protected will be temp data which can be saved or recovered at the next boot, depending on the recovery mode and relative parameters you set in configuration menu.

There is a time counter on the top of the menus, press any key will stop the time counter and the message will switch to the percentage of used system resource, otherwise, when the time counter reaches 0, HDSafe™ card will proceed with Protect

Mode automatically.

3-2-2 Configuration Menu

The Configuration Menu

(Screen 2)

will display if

F2

pressed on the Main Menu

CONFIGURATION

Set Protection

Set Parameters

Change Password

Backup CMOS

NetCopy

Uninstall

Exit

(Screen 2)

3-2-3 How to set protection

In Configuration Menu

(Screen 2)

, select

Set Protection

command, the following screen will appear.

CONFIGURATION -> Set Protection

Protected Drive File System Capacity(MB) Free Space(MB)

□

C: FAT32 5000 4004

□

D: FAT32 6000 3360

□

E: FAT32 5000 2350

Press

SPACE

to Modify

Arrow Keys

to Move

OK

(Screen 6)

Cancel

Use

Arrow Keys

to select drive;

Press

SPACE

to modify protection state of the selected drive.

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Press Esc or select

Cancel

when finish setting and will return to Configuration

Menu

(Screen 2)

.

3-2-4 How to set the system parameters

It is recommended to use the default parameters setting. You can adjust them by selecting

Set Parameters

command in Configuration Menu. Then the following screen will appear:

CONFIGURATION -> Set Parameters

Recovery Mode :

Auto/Manual/Manual with

Password/Open Mode

HDSafe Card Menu Screen: Hot Keys&Menu/BMP Picture/None

Protect CMOS Data: Yes/No

Protection Level: No/Level 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5

Run NETCOPY Before Starting OS: Yes / No

SPACE/PgUp/PgDn:

Modify

TAB:

Next Item

OK

(Screen 7)

Cancel

3-2-4-1 Set Recovery modes: set the working mode of the recovery card.

There are 3 options, the default one is Auto:

Auto: Protected data will be automatically restored as scheduled or on every reboot;

Manual:

F4

function key will be available on Main Menu Screen, when pressed, protected drive(s) will be recovered without password checking.

Manual with Password:

F4

function key will be available on Main Menu

Screen, when pressed, protected drive(s) will be recovered with password

checking.

3-2-4-2 Auto Recovery Setting:

Set specific interval for automatic data recovery, which is valid only for automatic recovery modes. The default setting is

‘Every Boot’.

Every Boot: the protected data on hard disk can be restored automatically after every reboot;

EveryDay/Week/15Days/Month/2Months/3Months: the data can be recovered as scheduled. For example, the set interval is EveryWeek and the last time to set system parameters is in the afternoon on Wednesday, then the recovery card will recover the data automatically with a ringing each afternoon on Wednesday.

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3-2-4-3 Set HDsafe Card Menu Screen: to set the screen when loading the

HDSafe™ card. There are 4 options, of which the default setting is Hot keys

&Menu.

Hot key & Menu: will display the main menu.

BMP Picture(640*480): display the picture created by user. At every booting, the recovery card will search the root directory of Drive C: for file named ‘hardsafe.bmp’, so long as the size of the picture does not exceed

640*480 pixels, and adopting 4-bit, 16-color BMP format, it will be displayed.

None(hide me): there is no information displayed, it seems that the recovery card has not been installed but you can press F2 to activate the

Main Menu Screen.

3-2-4-4 Set Protect CMOS data:

Set whether to inspect the CMOS data changes during power-on self-test and recover it automatically when it is modified. The default setting is No.

Yes: ignore the modification on CMOS data.

No: Automatically recover standard CMOS data;

If the HDSafe™ Card detects the designated data of COMS has been modified after finishing self-testing, the hint message ‘Restore CMOS?’ appears and waiting for your choice:

A. If you do not want to recover COMS data, please press

Crtl+Home

, then input the first 4 letter of your password and

Enter

key when the password input box appears.

B. If you really want to recover the CMOS data, press any key to recover the changed COMS data to previously protected status.

3-2-4-5 Set Protection Level:

Set Protection Level to higher level can prevent user or program tools from hacking the hard disk with direct I/O access better, but may affect the compatibility.

3-2-4-6 Set Run NETCOPY Before Starting OS: Set this item to Yes

can make the computer connecting to a sender which is running Netcopy and acts as

Sender, provided the sender exist and there is Netcopy.com and the packet driver for the LAN CARD named Ncpktdrv.com in the root of drive C:. This option is for auto maintenance through network, Please refer to Chapter 5 NetCopy for detail about Auto Maintenance Through Network.

3-2-5 How to modify the password

The default password is

Enter

key.

If you want to change it, select

Modify Password

command in Configuration

Menu

(Screen 2)

, input the new password twice.

The password can be any letter, number or symbol.

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3-2-6 How to backup CMOS data

Select

Backup CMOS Data

command in Configuration Menu, the message

“System will restart 3 times for analysing CMOS. [N]/[Y]

Press

Y

to backup CMOS, after three reboots the message “CMOS has been backuped” will appear at the bottom of the screen.

Press

N

to ignore.

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Chapter 4 Uninstall

To remove the HDSafe™ recovery Lan card will not cause any damage to data on your computer, the hard disk will be saved as the original status or the data was last changed saved.

4-1 Uninstall HDSafe™ Recovery Lan Card

In Configuration Menu (Screen 2), choose

Uninstall

command, the hint message

“Prepare to uninstall HDSafe Card? [Y/N]” will appear at the bottom of the screen, press

Y

to perform uninstall, or press

N

to cancel.

4-2 Uninstall HDSafe™ Recovery Lan Card physically

Remove the HDSafe™ Card from the PCI slot will uninstall the HDSafe™ Card physically.

4-3 Uninstall the driver:

For Windows NT/2000/XP, uninstall the driver by running Uninstall.exe

For Windows 9x, it dose not need to uninstall driver for none driver installed.

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Chapter 5 Set Multi-Boot

5-1 Set Multi-Boot

Select

Set Multi-Boot

command in Main Menu, following screen will appear, setup the

Boot Options, give each boot option a meaningful name, select file system and type in the capacity.

Set Multi-Boot

Boot Option Name File System Capacity(MB)

3 Win2000 5000

10000

Total Capacity: 40000(MB)

OK CANCEL

(Screen 8)

When multi-boot is set, partitions will be isolated from each other whilst Shared Driver

D: is the common data partition shared by every partition. The capacity of shared drive D: can be calculated automatically after all the boot options are set.

Select

OK

when finish. If you select

CANCEL

, you’ll need to confirm the CANCEL operation with the following screen:

Set Multi-Boot

Exit Without Change?

OK CANCEL

(Screen 9)

5-2 Install Software in Multi-Boot Partitions

After the multi-boot is set, you can then install operation systems and application software for every isolated partition.

With multi-boot set, following boot option selection screen will appear before every boot. Select the specific boot option you want to enter or operate, thereafter only the selected partition and Shared Drive D: (if exist) is valid for this boot. Software installed to the specific partition can’t be seen by other boot options.

Multi-Boot

[ MS-DOS ]

[ Win2000 ]

[ WinXp ]

(Screen 10)

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Chapter 6 NetCopy

5-2 NetCopy Work Flow

HDSafe NetCopy WorkFlow

PC boot

A

PCs waked up and boot

:Normal

:Sender

:Receiver

:Remote Control

:Connector

HDSafe

Initialize

HDSafe

Initialize

LOG ON to the

Sender

Sender

Exist?

No

Perform

NetCopy?

Yes

Yes

No

Load OS

B

Wait for the Data or Command sent by the Sender

Remote Controller Sender Receiver

Build Group Turn On All Turn Off All

Wake up all

Receiver

A

Turn off all

Receiver

Select specific group

Group

Built?

Set up

Parameters

Wait for the

Receivers to Log On

B

Build

Group

Execute Commands or Receive Data

Send Data or

Commands

Finish Data Receiving or Command Executing

Finish Data

Sending

Turn off

5-2 Precondition

For HDSafe NetPower Recovery LAN Card, NetCopy is fully integrated and can be initiated without any precondition.

For HDSafe Recovery Card, NetCopy is a stand alone program that can be run manually or automatically after the HDSafe initializing. Before run NetCopy upon HDSafe

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Recovery card, please do following preconditioning:

Copy NetCopy.com to the root of Drive C: of every PC;

A LAN card must exist, find the packet driver of the LAN card, rename it to

NCPACKEt.com and copy it to the root of Driver C: of every PC;

5-3 Operation Wizard

5-3-1 Act as Sender

Any PC in the LAN can act as sender to send selected partitions or whole hard disk to

Receivers, or execute remote control commands.

Press

F2

on the Main Menu

(Screen 3)

to enter Configuration Menu

(Screen 2)

, and then select

NetCopy

command to run NetCopy. Following NetCopy Main Menu will appear:

NetCopy V5.0

Select Function

Receiver

Sender Control

(Screen 11)

Select

Sender

command will make the PC initialize NetWork and act as Sender:

NetCopy V5.0

Initializing NetWork…

5-3-1-1 Select Specific PC Group to Send

Computers in LAN can divided into groups and NetCopy can transfer data to or control a specific group. The group information is saved in hard disk. If the groups have been built before, type in the specific group number you want to transfer data to or to control in the following screen. If there is not a group exist, type in the group number you want it to be, and that will lead you toSet Parameter screen

.

(Screen 14)

NetCopy V5.0

Select Group：[0]

(Screen 12)

5-3-1-2 Build Group (Collect MAC IDs)

The information of the computer(MAC, Capacity/Cylinders/Heads/Sectors per track of the hard disk) is shown on the bottom line of the screen.

There are 6 function keys on the screen scribed as follow:

F8 Recollect:

Collect MAC IDs again for the specific group;

F10 Save&Exit:

Save the MAC IDs and build the group;

ESC Exit:

Exit without saving;

F4 Turn on:

Turn on the computer related with the node number where the

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cursor located.

F5 Shut Down:

Turn off the computer related with the node number where the cursor located.

Del Delete:

Delete the computer related with the node number where the cursor located from the specific group.

NetCopy -> Build Group

Group:0 Logged On:40

00:on 01:on 02:on 03:on 04: on 05: on 06: on 07: on 08: on 09: on




40:off 41:off 42:off 43:off 44: off 45: off 46: off 47: off 48: off 49: off






Collecting ID…

F8

:Recollect

F10

:Save&Exit

ESC:

Exit

F4

:Turn on

F5

:ShutDown

Del

:Delete

MAC=00051A2B3C4D Capacity=19077 Cylinders=2432 Heads=255 Sectors per Track=63

(Screen 13)

You will back to NetCopy Main Menu

(Screen 8)

after

Save&Exit

or

Exit

.

5-3-1-3 Set Parameters

You can set following parameters to determine how NetCopy should perform, press

SPACE/PgUp/PgDn

key modify setting of specific item, press

TAB

key to move between items:

NetCopy -> Set Parameters

Action after sending: [wait/ reboot/turn off/turn off all]

Time scheduled to Send: [No/23:00/22:00…/17:00]

Action before sending: [wait/wait 1 min/wait 5 min/scheduled/Auto]

Interval between packets: [80us/40/20/10/5]

Modify IP and Name： [sequence/from file/don’t modify]

[√] Turn on all receiver remotely

[√] Send CMOS setting/date/time

[ ] Sent the whole HD

Use Space key to Modify, Arrow keys to Move

OK Cancel

(Screen 14)

Action before sending: there are 5 options for this item:

Wait: Wait for the receivers to log on until

F10

is pressed manually which will stop waiting and begin the sending routine.

Wait 1 minute:

Wait 1 minute for the receivers to log on before initiate

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sending;

Wait 5 minutes:

Wait 5 minutes for the receivers to log on before initiate sending;

Auto:

Initiate sending automatically after all PCs in specific group log on;

Scheduled:

Initiate sending according to the time set by the ‘Time Scheduled to Send’ item.

Action after Sending: there are 4 options for this item:

Wait:

Wait for command or operation after finish sending;

Turn off:

Turn off self after finish sending;

Turn off All:

Turn off self and all computers belong to the group after finish sending;

Reboot:

Reboot receiver after finish sending;

Time Schedule to Send:

Schedule a time when to initiate sending. This item is valid only when ‘Action Before Sending’ is set to ‘Scheduled’.

Interval Between Packets:

This item is for compatibility of LAN environment, depends on the speed of the LAN and the specification of Hub or Switch. Default setting is 10us.

Modify IP and Name:

Set whether and how to modify the IP and the computer name of the computers in the group before sending. There 3 options for this item:

Sequence:

Modify the IPs and computer names orderly by the offsets set in the Set Network Identify Offsets screen

(Screen 16)

.

From file: Modify the IPs and computer names according to a exist text file named Netcfg.txt located in the root of Drive C:

.

Netcfg.

txt is a text file with specific format:

The setting for different groups is divided by an section identify

$NETx

(x is the group number);

Each line in a specific section describe the computer name, IP and User name.

Here is a sample of Netcfg.txt:

$NET0 ---Section 1 (Group 1)

Class1PC1 192.168.0.1 user1

Class1PC3 192.168.0.4 Jone

computer name IP username

……

Class1PC23 192.168.0.50 Mary

$NET1 ---Section 2 (Group 2)

Class2PC1 200.200.200.1 User1

Class2PC2 200.200.200.2 User2

……

Don’t Modify:

Don’t modify the IPs and computer names.

Turn on All receivers:

If this item is checked, the Sender will wake up all computers in the specific group before sending, provided the specific group was built. The default is marked;If it is not be marked, it wil appear the interface of

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power control on screen 17, press “enter” to wait logging and “esc” to exit.

Send CMOS date:

If this item is checked, standard CMOS data of the Sender will be sent along with the hard disk data.

Sent the whole HD:

Send the whole hard disk to the Receivers. If this item is checked, Select Drive(s) to Send screen

(Screen 15)

will not appear.

5-3-1-4 Select Drives to Send

This screen will appear only if Sent the whole HD item is not checked in the Set

Parameters screen.

Only selected hard disk data will be sent to the Receiver.

NetCopy -> Select Drives to Send

Send Drive CAP（MB） DATA(MB)

[ ] C: 10001 1018

[ ] D: 15005 655

[ ] E: 14072 569

Use

Space Key

to Modify,

Arrow Keys

to Move

OK Cancel

(Screen 15)

5-3-1-5 Set Network Identify Offsets

If Modify IP and Name item is set to Sequence, following screen will appear for setting the Network Identify Offsets :

NetCopy -> Set NetWork Identify Offsets

Specific group: [Group1 ]

Computer name: [Pc1 ]

User name: [User1 ]

IP: [10.0.0.1 ]

Enter:

Confirm

TAB:

Next Identify

OK Cancel

(Screen 16)

5-3-1-6 Wait for Logging On

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Provided the specific group is built, following screen will appear, waiting for the receivers to log on.

NetCopy -> Log on and Sending

Group:0 Logged On:40











Waiting for Log On… /Sending Data…

F10

: Begin to Send

ESC

: Terminate Sending and Exit

MAC=00051A2B3C4D HD Capacity=19077 CylinderS=2432 Heads=255 Sectors per Track=63

(Screen 17)

5-3-1-7 Send Data

If Action Before Sending was set to Wait, press

F10

to stop waiting and initiate sending, else the sending routine will begin automatically after wait for configured minutes or the system time reaches the scheduled time.

Press

ESC

key will terminate the sending and exit.

5-3-2 Act as Receriver

In case Run Netcopy before OS is set to Yes, if a PC in the LAN is running

NetCopy

and act as Sender, the computer will log on to the Sender as Receicer automatically.

A computer can also initiate NetCopy and act as Receiver manually by selecting

NetCopy

command on the Configuration Menu

(screen 2)

, an then selecting

Receiver

command.

5-3-2-1 Log on

When a computer initiates NetCopy and acts as Receiver, it will log on to the

Sender

after initiatizing network with following screen. If log on successfully, the node number will be displayed in screen 18.

NetCopy V5.0

Initializing NetWork…

5-3-2-2 Receive Data

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Receiving data can only be invoked by the Sender. A computer can terminate and exit Receiving by press

ESC

key.

NetCopy V5.0 -> Log on and Receiving

5-3-3 Remote Control

By selecting

Remote Controller

command in NetCopy Main Menu, a computer can perform three kinds of remote control functions:

Build Group

,

Turn on All

,

Turn off All

.

Mode Number :0

ESC: Terminate and Exit

Complete: 0Mb

(Screen 18)

NetCopy -> Remote Control

Remote Control Functions

Build Group Turn on All Trun off All

(Screen 19)

5-3-3-1 Build Group

All NetCopy function execute by Group. Please refer to section 5-3-1-2 and

screen 13

about how to build a specific group.

5-3-3-2 Turn on All

NetCopy

can turn off all computers in the specific group if HDSafe NetPower

Card

is installed or the LAN cards have Wake On Lan feature. To perform this function, all computers to turn on must be soft-turned-off (leave main power switch

ON

).


All computers in the group have been turned on!

OK

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5-5-3-3 Turn off All

NetCopy

can turn off all computers in the specific group if HDSafe NetPower

Card

is installed or the LAN cards have Wake On Lan feature.


All computers in the group have been turned off!

OK

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Chapter 7 FAQs

7-1 General Questions:

1. How does Intelligent Recovery Technology work?

A: Intelligent Recovery Technology works by recording changes made to the HDD, thus it only requires a small amount of HDD space to operate.

2. Is it easy to install?

A: Yes. It is "Plug and Play".

3. Is HDSafe™ Y2K (Year 2000) compliant?

A: Yes.

4. Can HDSafe™ be upgraded?

A: Yes. You can download the upgrades at our website (www.HDSafecard.com)

5. Can HDSafe™ coexist with integrated or "software" modems?

A: Yes. There are no known conflicts.

6. Where have HDSafe™ cards been used?

A: HDSafe™ have been used in places like universities, colleges, school computer labs, libraries, R & D Centers, educational labs, training centers, Internet stations,

Corporate sectors, Government sectors and private enterprises etc.

7. Why those places?

A: In these places, the computers are being accessed by many different people all the time. HDSafe™ will protect the computer's operating system and application software against modifications, tampering, pranks and viruses

8. My computer already has an operating system. Do I have to reinstall again if I use

HDSafe™

?

A: No. HDSafe™ can keep your operating system.

9. There are other software only solutions in the market. What makes HDSafe™ special and why does it require a hardware card?

A: Software only solutions can easily be hacked and cannot offer any real protection outside the operating system. The HDSafe™ hardware card can protect against such intrusion or corruption by intercepting them outside the operating system or at the hardware level.

10. Why software only solutions cannot offer protection "outside the operating system"?

A: "Software only solutions" are specifically written for an operating system. If the

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operating system is not running, then the "software only solution" cannot operate.

Furthermore the BIOS/CMOS settings can’t be protected by “Software only solution” because it executes before any operating system.

11. Can HDSafe™ protect the BIOS/CMOS settings?

A: Yes. It will automatically restore a good copy when any of the settings are tampered or corrupted.

12. Why should I protect the BIOS/CMOS settings?

A: If the BIOS/CMOS settings are corrupted, your computer may hang or behave abnormally. It may even crash your operating system or corrupt your HDD.

13. Can you assure me that HDSafe's password is secure?

A: Yes. HDSafe™ password is encrypted and emphasizes on security.

14. What is "Open mode"?

A: "Open mode" is usually for the computer administrator or manager. In this mode, whatever changes made (editing/deleting/moving/renaming files, installing/upgrading/removing software, etc.) will be permanent.

15. What is "Protected mode"?

A: "Protected mode" is for computer users and public access. In this mode, whatever changes made (editing/deleting/moving/renaming files, installing /upgrading/ removing software, etc.) are temporary and when rebooted, everything returns back to the original setup.

16. Can someone really FORMAT/FDISK the HDD under "Protected mode"?

A: No. It is impossible even in real DOS mode. If someone tries, "HDSafe™" and everything will be restored back to normal after recovery.

17. How can I reformat my HDD without removing HDSafe™?

A: You can reformat your HDD under Open Mode only.

18. I am using HDSafe™ Card and I want to upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows

2000 on Instant Recovery Mode. Shall I proceed?

A: Yes, HDSafe™ Recovery Card support all Windows operations.

19. If the HDSafe™ Card corrupts or I remove the HDSafe™ Card without uninstalling it, will the data on hard disk be damaged?

A: No. The data on hard disk will be restored to the status last saved. The changes you made to the protected drive after last saving will be deleted.

20. Does HDSafe™ support partition tools rather than FDISK?

A: No. Partition tools like Partition Magic is not supported. So if the original hard disk was prepared by partition tools rather than FDISK, you’ll have to re-partition in with FDISK.

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7-2 Installation Questions

1. Before installing HDSafe™, are there any steps to perform?

A: Please run Windows Scandisk and Disk Defragmenter. And kill any existing viruses with anti-virus software.

2. Why do I have to run Scandisk before installing HDSafe™?

A: Before any installation, the HDD must be checked for errors. This is to ensure that all the original information, which HDSafe™ will use for restoration, are in good condition.

3. Why do I have to defragment the HDD before installing HDSafe™?

A: This is because HDSafe™ occupies the last sectors of your HDD. If there are any files occupying these sectors, it will be moved by defragmenting, otherwise it will be overwritten during installation.

4. Which PCI expansion slot should I use?

A: Any free expansion slot will do.

5. The HDSafe™ menu does not appear. What should I do?

A: In the BIOS/CMOS settings, disable virus warning and select NETWORK/LAN as the first boot device. For some older BIOS, enable "option ROM".

6. Do I need to install extra driver after installing HDSafe™?

A: Under Window9x and Windows Me, you don’t need to install any driver. For Windows

NT/2000/XP, you’ll need to run “SetupNT_XP.exe” located in the driver disk to install the driver either before or after installing HDSafe™™ card.

7. An exclamation mark ( ! ) appears on "IDE controller" in Windows "Device Manager" after installing HDSafe™ Card. Why?

A: This may occur under “Windos9x” and “Windows Me”. Normally, HDSafe™ will install driver for Windows9x and Windows Me automatically. When a different version of

HDSafe™

was ever installed, HDSafe™ may fail to install the driver. In this case, You must run the file "Setup9x.exe" located in the driver disk under Open Mode.

The confliction between HDSafe™ and the IDE driver supplied by the mainboard manufacturer may cause the exclamation mark in some very rare case. Please uninstall the IDE driver supplied with the mainboard and then install normal IDE driver supplied by Windows9x or Windows Me.

8. How do I protect the BIOS/CMOS settings with HDSafe™?

A: Enable "Protect CMOS data" function. But before you do this, execute "Backup CMOS data" first.

9. After the installing HDSafe™, data on hard disk is not protected under Windows

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NT/2000/XP, why?

A: You must have forgotten to install the driver. Pleas run SetupNT_XP.exe driver installer located in the driver disk.

10. After uninstall HDSafe™ recovery card, the system alarm with low-high-low-hight beeps when starting Windows2000/NT/XP , why?

A: It’s because the driver for Windows2000/NT/XP was not unloaded after removing

HDSafe™ Card

. Please uninstall the driver in Control Panel.

11. I forget the password ! What can I do?

A: Password is for security purpose. There is no way to get it back if you forget it. In this case, you will have to remove the HDSafe™ card physically, then execute password removal utility Clear.exe located in the driver disk under pure DOS environment, then re-install HDSafe™ card . With HDSafe™ Card physically installed, Clear.exe can’t operate.

7-3 NetCopy Questions

1. What is NetCopy?

A: NetCopy is a "Server-less Network COPY" tool that can be independent or integrated with HDSafe™ NetPower™ Card. With this function you can copy partitions and parameter data from one computer to multiple computers simultaneously over a network.

2. What is the network speed of HDSafe™ NetPower™ card?

A: It’s 10/100Mbps auto adaptable.

3. Can I use HDSafe™ NetPower™ Card in a computer that doesn’t support WOL(Wake

On LAN)?

A: Yes. But you will not be able to use the WOL function on the card.

4. What is "parameter data" In the manual?

A: "Parameter data" is actually HDSafe™'s data such as passwords, partition information and configuration settings of the "sender" computer.

5. Is it necessary for every computer on the network to have exactly the same hardware specifications for NetCopy to work?

A: No, but it is recommended that all the computers should be the same. If Windows detects changes or differences in hardware (motherboard chipset, BIOS, VGA, etc) on the receiving computer, the hardware detection cycle will start again.

6. What are the hardware components in the computer that can be different?

A: The amount of RAM, CDROM drive, floppy disk drive and keyboard. Windows detects and registers them automatically.

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7. What are the hardware components in the computer that can not be different?

A: The HDD type and capacity should be the same for NetCopy to work properly.

8. Please explain about "HDD type and capacity".

A: "HDD type" here refers to number of physical cylinders, heads and sectors. From these parameters, the HDD's capacity can be determined.

9. Can I use NetCopy with the normal HDSafe™ Card and a independent LAN card?

A: Yes. But you must get the DOS packet driver for the network card to do this. Usually the packet driver is located in the network card's driver disk.

10. Can I perform NetCopy to a HDD from a different manufacturer but with the same capacity?

A: Yes, provided that the HDDs have the same number of cylinders, heads and sectors.

11. Can I perform NetCopy to a HDD of higher capacity?

A: Yes, provided that the HDDs have the same number of heads and sectors.

12. Does network speed affect NetCopy's performance?

A: Yes, faster network speed will give better performance. We recommend at least

100Mbps.

13. Does HDD speed also affect NetCopy's performance?

A: No, if the network speed is 100Mbps network. The HDD data transfer rates nowadays can exceed the transfer rate of a 100Mbps network connection. However using

"gigabit" networking will increase NetCopy's performance.

14. The sending and receiving computers' hardware are identical. Why, after NetCopy,

Windows starts hardware detection?

A: Some differences in the BIOS/CMOS settings and the BIOS version can still activate this event.

Appendix：File List of driver disk

Netpower setup Driver install of HDSafe™ card for Windows2000/NT/XP

Clear.exe: Use this toll to clear the data left on hard disk by relative data recovery products.

Driver uninstaller for Win9x Uninstall.exe:

Users’ Manual Netpower User’s manual

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HDSafe NetPower Recovery NetPower Recovery LAN Card User's Manual

Assistant Bot

User’s Manual

HDSafe™ NetPower Recovery LAN Card

HDSafe™ Technology CO., LTD

http://www.HDSafecard.com

Tel: 86-591-3385081

Fax: 86-591-3706139

175 West Erhuan Road

Fuzhou, Fujian

P.R.C

350002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Copyright

Important Notice for Users

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Installation

Chapter 3 Using HDSAFE™

Set Protection

□

□

□

Chapter 4 Uninstall

4-3 Uninstall the driver:

Chapter 5 Set Multi-Boot

Chapter 6 NetCopy

Chapter 7 FAQs

Appendix：File List of driver disk

Key Features

Frequently Answers and Questions

My computer already has an operating system. Do I have to reinstall again if I use HDSafe?

How does Intelligent Recovery Technology work?

Why do I have to run Scandisk before installing HDSafe?

Related manuals

HDSafe NetPower Recovery NetPower Recovery LAN Card User's Manual

Assistant Bot

User’s Manual

HDSafe™ NetPower Recovery LAN Card

HDSafe™ Technology CO., LTD

http://www.HDSafecard.com

Tel: 86-591-3385081

Fax: 86-591-3706139

175 West Erhuan Road

Fuzhou, Fujian

P.R.C

350002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Copyright

Important Notice for Users

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Installation

Chapter 3 Using HDSAFE™

Set Protection

□

□

□

Chapter 4 Uninstall

4-3 Uninstall the driver:

Chapter 5 Set Multi-Boot

Chapter 6 NetCopy

Chapter 7 FAQs

Appendix：File List of driver disk

Key Features

Frequently Answers and Questions

My computer already has an operating system. Do I have to reinstall again if I use HDSafe?

How does Intelligent Recovery Technology work?

Why do I have to run Scandisk before installing HDSafe?

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