System Image Recovery From OEM Partition

Gigabyte Xpress Recovery2

Gigabyte Xpress Recovery2 supported motherboard provide system image recovery from OEM Partition for desktop computer with just pressing F9 while booting, when your computer face any problem. Xpress Recovery2 back up data on hard disks on SATA and PATA IDE controllers.

System Requirements:

• Intel x86 platforms.

• At least 64M bytes of system memory.

• VESA-supported VGA cards.

Note:

1. Everything from your hard disk will be deleted. So backup your important file and data before proceeding.
2. Xpress Recovery2 will backup system image file at the end of the hard disk, so you must have enough (At least 4 GB recommended. But in actual you must have free unallocated space depending on the size of the data to be backed up) unallocated hard drive partition space in advance.
3. If you have not enough hard disk unallocated space then delete and make free unallocated space for data backup. As Xpress Recovery2 will backup image at the end of the Hard Disk so the last partition must be unallocated and must have enough space(As shown in the picture below) otherwise you will be given an error message like "Not enough Hard Disk space".

Gigabyte Unaalocated Space

4. As you can see in the above picture, I've deleted all the partition. And made only one Partition to install Windows (System Reserve partition has been created automatically) and left the remaining partition unallocated. After the completion of data backup you can create other partition with remaining unallocated partition.
5. To install Xpress Recovery2  with clean Windows installation, boot from your Windows Installation disc. Go to window installation page. Delete all hard drive partitions. Just create one partition(Drive C:) and install window in the very partition and left the remaining partition unallocated for data backup(as I've already mentioned in Step 3)


Steps:

1. Go to BIOS setting and make you CD/DVD ROM as your first device.Save setting and exit.
2. Insert your motherboard driver CD and restart your computer. After restart a message will be displayed.. "Boot from CD/DVD:"... "Press any key to boot from CD..." Press any key to enter Xpress Recovery2 setup
3. Xpress Recovery2 takes a few second to load.

Xpress Recovery2

4. Now Xpress Recovery2 setup page will start.
5. Select backup(with keyboard) and press enter.

Xpress Recovery2

6. Data backup will start. And it may takes a long time depending upon the size of your data to be backed up.

Xpress Recovery2

7. After completion restart. Data backup with Xpress Recovery2 has been done.

Additional Info:

1. The driver CD is just required for the first time only to install Xpress Recovery2. Thereafter user can access Xpress Recovery2 just by pressing F9 while booting.
2. Install Xpress Recovery2 immediately after installing OS, all required drivers and softwares.
3. Data restoration will replace everything of Drive C: with the backed up System Image.

Some Errors:

1. 'Not enough Hard Drive space'- That means you've not sufficient space to backup in the last unallocated drive in your hard disk.

Xpress Recovery2

2. 'All primary partition is in use' or 'IDE Drive not detected'- That means you've no unallocated space at the end of your hard disk.
For other limitation and requirement go to Gigabyte Official Xpress Recovery2 page.