Test the Recovery CD

Once you have burned your recovery CD, you can test it on your target device.

To test the recovery CD

1. Make sure the target device is configured to allow booting from CD-ROM. Usually this is specified in the target device's BIOS.

2. Start the target device with the recovery CD-ROM in the CD drive.

   The device starts in Windows PE and provides a command prompt, at drive X:.

3. At the command prompt, type:

   regsvr32 sdiaut.dll
   

   This registers the SDI Manager.

4. Change directories to the location of your SDI file, and then type:

   sdimgr.wsf recovery.sdi /writedisk:0 /yes  
   

   This tells SDI Manager to write the DISK blob from the SDI file recovery.sdi to the physical drive 0. The /yes switch prevents the accidental erasure of data on the drive. Otherwise, the disk writing operation erases all data.

   SDI Manager writes the image to disk, and a message similar to the following appears:

   *Writing to disk  :"\\.\PhysicalDrive0"...
   

5. When a message appears that the writing is complete, exit Windows PE, remove the CD-ROM, and restart the computer.

6. Test the run-time image on the device. Troubleshoot as needed until the image installs from a burned CD and runs correctly.

See Also

How to Create a Device Recovery CD by Using Windows PE and SDI | Duplicate and Distribute Recovery CD | Create a Bootable Recovery CD

Last updated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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