| Replacing hard drive
Cleaning the
Flopppy Drive:
 | Clean the floppy drive using
a cleaning disk.
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| Obtain several BLANK
formatted floppy disks. |
Backup of data:
| Print key data files
(shift/F2, F3, F5) and one ration (shift/F7)
|
| Back up all Flowcon
operating files.
 | Use option #4 on the Startup
page of the startup menu "Save Data and Formula files to floppy". |
| You may need to use option
#5 if you have a great quantity of ration files.
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| Make sure you have a current
copy of your operating software.
| Check the revision date and
time on the bottom of the F8 screen. |
| If you don't have a current
backup, use option #7 on the Utilities page of the startup menu to copy these files to
another blank floppy. |
|
Removal of drive:
| Turn the computer off and
unplug it.
|
| Remove the cover, and the
screws holding the hard drive in its bay.
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| Extract the hard drive and
remove the power and data cable.
|
Installing new drive:
| Inspect the new hard drive
and check that the configuration jumpers are installed making this hard drive
| the primary (Maxtor, most
others) |
| or 'single' (Western
Digital). |
| If Flowcon supplied you the
hard drive, these jumpers will be already set correctly.
|
|
| Connect the data and power
cables to the new hard drive.
| The stripe on the data cable
goes towards the power connector
|
|
| Install the hard drive into
its bay and secure with screws.
|
Start up the computer --
setting the CMOS.
| Enter the BIOS (CMOS) setup
screen by repeatedly pressing the 'DEL' key on power up.
|
| On the 'Standard CMOS Setup'
section,
| Make sure the primary hard
drive type is set to 'AUTO'. |
| If this option is not
available, contact Flowcon for further advice.
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|
Loading backup Data files.
| If Flowcon supplied you the
hard drive, all of the needed startup files will already be installed
|
| Use option #4 on the
Utilities page of the startup menu to load your current data and formula files. |
Verification:
| Check the version on the F8
screen of the batching application. Make sure it matches your current backup.
|
| Look at your system files,
and formula header file, to make sure all parameters match the original printouts.
|
| If it is newer, you were
running an old version of the batching software
| let Flowcon know this
|
|
| Run a simulated batch to
make sure everything's OK.
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