HP Z800 Owners Manual

Setting up the Microsoft operating system
NOTE:If you ordered a downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP Professional operating
system, your system will be preinstalled with Windows XP Professional operating system. With this
configuration, you will receive recovery media for Windows Vista operating system only. In case you
need to restore or recover the Windows XP Professional operating system in the future, it is important
that you create recovery media disks for Windows XP Professional operating...

Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux
HP offers an HP Installer Kit for Linux (HPIKL) to supplement Red Hat box sets and help HP Linux
customers customize their system image. The HPIKL contains the HP driver CD and device drivers to
successfully setup up the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system, The HP Installer Kit for
Linux CDs are currently available for download at 
http://www.hp.com/support/workstation_swdrivers.
Installing with the HP driver CD
To install the HP driver CD, see “Installing...

Installing and customizing Red Hat-enabled workstations
Linux-enabled workstations require the HP Installer Kit and the purchase of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
box set. The Installer kit includes the HP CDs necessary to complete the installation of all versions of
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux box set that have been qualified to work on an HP workstation.
To use the drivers in the HP Installer kit for Linux other than RHEL, you must manually extract the drivers
from the HP Driver CD and install them. HP...

Determining current BIOS
To determine the current BIOS of the workstation during system power up:
1.Wait for F10=setup to appear on the lower right corner of the screen.
2.Press F10 to enter the F10 Setup utility.
The F10 Setup utility displays the workstation BIOS version under File > System Information.
3.Note the workstation BIOS version so that you can compare it with the BIOS versions that appear
on the HP website.
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Upgrading BIOS
To find and download the latest available BIOS, which includes the latest enhancements:
1.Go to 
http://www.hp.com/go/workstationsupport.
2.Select Download Drivers and Software from the left menu column under Tasks.
3.Follow the instructions to locate the latest BIOS available for the workstation.
4.If the BIOS on the Web site is the same as the version on your system, no further action is required.
5.If the BIOS on the Web site is a version later than the one on your system, download the...

3 Restoring the operating system
This chapter describes how to restore the Windows or Linux operating system. It includes these topics:
Topics
Restore methods on page 24
Ordering backup software on page 25
Restoring Windows Vista on page 25
Restoring Windows XP Professional on page 26
Restoring Novell SLED on page 28
Installing with the HP driver CD on page 20
Restore methods
The Windows Business Vista operating system can be reinstalled using the HP RestorePlus! process.
The Windows XP Professional...

Ordering backup software
If you cannot create system recovery CDs or DVDs, you can order a recovery disk set from the HP
support center. To obtain the support center telephone number for your region visit 
http://www.hp.com/
support/contactHP.
Restoring Windows Vista
This section describes how to restore Windows Vista.
Ordering the RestorePlus! media
If you ordered restore media with your workstation, the media is included with your workstation
components.
If you did not order restore media, call HP...

Restoring Windows XP Professional
This section describes how to restore the Windows XP Professional operating system.
NOTE:The workstation must have a CD or DVD writer installed to create the media set.
Creating RestorePlus! media
The RestorePlus! kit can be created using the files contained on the hard drive. To create the restore
media:
1.Boot the workstation.
2.During boot up, an HP Backup and Recovery Manager screen is displayed prompting you to create
Recovery CDs or DVDs. Select Now.
3.An Initial...

Creating HP Backup and Recovery (HPBR) media
NOTE:HPBR functionality is used with Windows XP only. For details, refer to the SoftThinks guide
on the Documentation and Diagnostics CD included with the workstation.
The Initial Recovery Point can be burned to optical media and used to recover a system. This section
describes making the media.
NOTE:The workstation must have a CD or DVD writer to create the media set.
To create HPBR recovery media:
1.The Initial Recovery Point was captured when the...

Restoring the operating system
CAUTION:Before you restore the operating system, back up your data.
When you run RestorePlus! from media, the process deletes all information on the primary hard drive,
including all partitions. If you run RestorePlus! from the recovery partition, only the root (C:) partition is
affected.
Using RestorePlus!
To restore with RestorePlus!:
1.Boot the workstation from the RestorePlus! DVD. You must start from the RestorePlus! DVD for
device drivers and settings to be...