National Instruments PXI NI 8171 Series - Manual (Page 48)

Chapter 4 Common Configuration Questions
NI 8171 Series User Manual 4-4 ni.com
• SCSI, LPT, or PC card-based CD-ROM—Other types of CD-ROM
drives are available. Check with the vendor to make sure
Windows 2000 supports the drive.
• Mapped network drive—You can use the Ethernet to connect to
another computer. If you share the CD-ROM drive on the other
computer, you can map the shared CD-ROM drive to a drive letter
on the NI 8171 series.
Hard Drive Recovery
How do I restore the hard drive image?
The NI 8171 series controllers include a recovery CD. There are two
methods for recovering the hard disk to its original state.
Recovery from a CD-ROM Drive
These steps apply to a USB CD-ROM, IDE CD-ROM (when using a
PXI-1020 or PXI-1025 chassis), or SCSI CD-ROM drive (when a SCSI
adapter is installed).
To recover the hard disk from a CD-ROM:
1. Load the recovery CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Press during the BIOS POST. After POST, a boot menu is
displayed. Select the CD-ROM drive.
3. The BIOS boots from CD-ROM drive. Follow the prompts to recover
the hard drive.
Note Not all CD-ROMs are bootable with the NI 8171 series controllers. For a complete
list of USB CD-ROM drives that National Instruments has verified as bootable, see
ni.com .
Recovery from a Network
To recover the hard disk from a network:
1. Create a DOS boot disk with network support. (The DOS network
drivers and a network boot disk example are on the recovery CD.)
2. Use another PC on the network with a CD-ROM drive. Share the drive
and load the recovery CD.
3. Boot the NI 8171 series using the network boot disk. Run the net utility
from the
a drive.