Psion USB-Stick Customer User Manual
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1. on this product for a period of twelve 12 months in accor dance with the Statement of Limited Warranty and Limitation of Liability provided at www psion com warranty The warranty on Psion manufactured equipment does not extend to any product that has been tampered with altered or repaired by any person other than an employee of an authorized Psion service organiza tion See Psion terms and conditions of sale for full details A Important Psion warranties take effect on the date of shipment Service and Information Psion provides a complete range of product support services and information to its customers worldwide Services include technical support and product repairs To locate your local support services please go to www psion com service and support htm To access further information on current and discontinued products please go to our Teknet site and log in or tap on Not Registered depending on whether you have previously registered for Teknet http community psion com support A section of archived product information is also available online http www psion com products TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INtFOdUCHON sisi waa a nee 7 2 MalniM enU arica a ds de hack ern RR A aabt aad Bode a i 21 DOS Command LINE isis ea a er da 7 22 Delete Storage Medium a sastapa u a aa a A A A ee Bde Bla a 1 2 3 Automatic Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Local o o ooo ooo ee ee 8 2 31 Restore IMA2. the file explorer of the Symantec Ghost software change the drive through the Look in drop down box to 2 1 FAT drive HG IITA ANA TARA RAS ITA A ie rat TR A IE TE A EAE E a a E BE BEE ER F Zig ar Symantec ARE i 5 1 To ch 1998 sr Symantec Corporation All rights reserved LITA DAN a a TEN Re ben u EN No Es e TE enw fats Lys Se 2 6 Manual Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Network The network version of the Manual image backup restore works the same way as the local version de scribed above except that a network connection to the network share will be established before starting the Ghost software 10 Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual Configure Network Settings 2 7 Configure Network Settings Conf igure Network settings TCP IP Configuration MS Network Configuration Test Network settings Save and reboot ESC Exit The menu content is described in the following sections 2 71 TCP IP Configuration TCP IP Configuration 11 Enable Dynamic Network Config over DHCP 2 Enable and confiugre static IP ESC Back Choose either DHCP or static IP network access depending on your specific network configuration 2 7 1 1 Enable Dynamic Network Configuration over DHCP Choose this option to receive the TCP IP settings automatically from a DHCP server on your network Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual En Configure N
3. G Gi ii AA AA e GA RE GAR 8 2 32 Restore Ist Partition from Image leaving space for EWF partition 9 2 3 3 Create Image of all Partitions Except EWF Partition 2 2 22 0 0 0 000 eee eee 9 2 4 Automatic Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Network 2 222 2222er 9 2 5 Manual Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Local ooo ee 10 2 6 Manual Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Network o oo 10 27 Configure Network SettidOS i au a sus echoes ce ie eee eda daw A aa ees 11 271 TCP IP Configuration eose ecse enano eee 11 2 7 2 MS Network Configurationi u coca ee eae wa nw ee eee ee ae we als 12 3 Create XPemb EWF Partition a2 som a ara uidi a e e ee en 13 31 General Description of the EWF 2 o 13 3 2 EWF Partition Creation 5 um un a e a RR O O AO Ee eS a OR eee ae 13 33 Check tor the EWF Partition e se 4 48 3 4 ae a nn oo ech BES ROS eRe ee ARR ee 14 4 Change EWF State Enable Disable Commit ee ee 14 Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual E Introduction 2 1 2 2 Introduction This USB Stick is intended for creating and restoring Symantec Ghost Images of Windows XP Embedded Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows XP Professional to Psion 8580 90 85 95 Vehicle Mount Computers While all their images can be created and restored automatically a flexible backup and restore capability is available through the manual use of Symante
4. PSION USB STICK Customer User Manual November 18 2011 Part No 8000178 B ISO 9001 Certified Quality Management System O Copyright 2011 by Psion Inc 2100 Meadowvale Boulevard Mississauga Ontario Canada L5N 7J9 http www psion com This document and the information it contains is the property of Psion Inc This document is not to be used reproduced or copied in whole or in part except for the sole purpose of assisting in proper use of Psion manufactured goods and services by their rightful owners and users Any other use of this docu ment is prohibited Disclaimer Every effort has been made to make this material complete accurate and up to date In addition changes are periodically incorporated into new editions of the publication Psion Inc reserves the right to make improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this document without notice and shall not be responsible for any damages including but not limited to consequential damages caused by reliance on the material presented Psion the Psion logo and the names of other products and services provided by Psion are trademarks of Psion Inc Windows and the Windows Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners Return To Factory Warranty Psion Inc provides a return to factory warranty
5. c Ghost software and an active network connec tion Note You will need at least 1 GByte of disk space The USB Stick makes it possible to store and restore images automatically to and from the root directory of the USB Stick drive but also to and from the network share drive g The images can be created directly on the USB Stick on the network drive or by manually using Ghost on a separate partition on the local drive If you want to use a network share drive for your images you will need to configure the network settings of the USB Stick for your network See Configure Network Settings on page 11 for configuring the TCP IP and MS Network settings Note Only the internal LAN adaptor can be used for network access The wireless card cannot be used because it has no DOS WLAN driver Main Menu The Startup Menu provides the options described in the following sections MS DOS 6 22 Startup Menu 2 Delete Storage Medium 3 Automatic image backup restore with Symantec Ghost TM local Automatic image backup restore with Symantec Ghost TM network Manual image backup restore with Symantec Ghost TM local Manual image backup restore with Symantec Ghost TM network Configure Network settings Enter a choice 1 DOS Command Line The standard DOS command prompt will be loaded Delete Storage Medium All partitions on the storage medium will be deleted CF card hard disk Deleting the storage medium and
6. eated If an image with entered name already exists you will be asked if the image should be overwritten Automatic Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Network The submenu of this option is identical to that described in Automatic Image Backup Restore with Syman tec Ghost Local on page 8 but now all processes use the network drive g instead of the root directory of the USB Stick Before starting a network backup restore process from this submenu configure and test the network set tings as described in Configure Network Settings on page 11 Make sure that the restore file to be used is in the shared folder The creation process will also store images there Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual Manual Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Local 2 5 Manual Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Local In some cases it may not be possible or useful to choose the automatic creation or restoration of image files Examples e You plan to create images from operating systems other than Windows XP Embedded Windows Embedded Standard 7 or Windows XP Professional You have to restore an image with one or more partitions and want to determine the size of each parti tion and the space behind it If that is the case you can fully operate Symantec Ghost software manually by choosing that menu option The Symantec manual can be found on the USB Stick on the doc folder Note To access the USB Stick in
7. ed after the first system start 3 2 EWF Partition Creation The Enhanced Write Filter is a functionality that is only available on Embedded versions of Windows operat ing systems like Windows XP Embedden and Windows Embedded Standard 7 This means that the complete operating system can be locked against all user changes during runtime AN Important Restart the system after restore The EWF partition must be created after the first system restart This is very important since after a second restart the EWF partition CANNOT BE CREATED AGAIN In that case the Windows XP Embedded image must be restored again Open a command window Start gt Run gt Command and enter the following command for the EWF Parti tion creation rundil32 ewfdll dll ConfigureEwf Be sure to set the command correctly You will not receive any notification after the command execution Perform a reboot of the terminal Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual 3 3 Check for the EWF Partition Open another command window and perform the following commands in order ewfmgr ewfmgr c Check for the displayed window e You must receive the following information after executing both commands WINDOWS system32 cmd exe Microsoft Windows XP Version 5 1 2688 lt C Copyright 1985 2661 Microsoft Corp C Documents and Settings Administrator gt ewfmgr The Ewf Volume is Device HarddiskVolume2 Ewf Volume Configuration Volume Size Segments Segment Si
8. etwork Settings 2 7 1 2 Enable and Configure Static IP Static IP Configuration IP Address 192 168 100 1 21 Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 31 Default Gateway ESC1 Back Enter an IP Address use SPACEes as separator 192 168 10 25_ If you choose static IP configuration you must configure the IP Address the Subnet Mask and perhaps the Default Gateway 2 7 2 MS Network Configuration MS Network Configuration Computer Name VehicleName Username Password Log inane Auto logon Active Doma in Dona inane com Workgroup Server Name ImageServerNane Share Name SharedFolderName ESC1 Back Enter password for auto logon or press ESC 12 Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual Create XPemb EWF Partition In this menu you configure the Computer Name the Username and perhaps the Password the Domain name or the Workspace name if a Domain controller is not present and also the network PC item 5 and the folder item 6 to which you need access for the image file transfer Remember to configure the access rights of the share on the server so that the defined network user has full access Read Write Modify Note If you do not configure a password you will be asked if you wish to create a password file dur ing the logon process Answer N since regardless the file would not be saved on the USB Stick Additional Information Windows 2000 and 2003 domains Because the rights system chan
9. ged in Windows 2000 and 2003 domains Windows NT 4 0 server struc tures you must give all users full access to the network share you want to use in DOS Otherwise you will get an error message that the connection to the network share could not be established due to missing se curity rights 3 Create XPemb EWF Partition This section describes the EWF Enhanced Write Filter partition creation that is needed to fully run mainly older Windows XP Embedded operating system 3 1 General Description of the EWF The Enhanced Write Filter is a functionality that is only available on Embedded versions of Windows operat ing systems like Windows XP Embedden and Windows Embedded Standard 7 This means that the complete operating system can be locked against all user changes during runtime The complete operating system runs within the SDRAM and will not perform write operations to the storage medium CF Card CFast Card Harddisk etc Only a user with administrator rights can activate and deactivate the EWF state Mainly in older XP Embedded image versions the state and the configuration of the EWF is only stored ina special hidden partition called EWF Partition In newer image versions it also stores the configuration and state of the EWF in the registry rather than just in a partition This solves some problems with backup restore for example if the system doesn t allow the EWF partition to work when restored so that it always has to be recreat
10. nge EWF State Enable Disable Commit ewfmgrc commitanddisable Use this command to deactivate the EWF on systems that work in RAM Reg Mode systems without EWF partition Since the configura tion of such systems is stored in the registry which is surely also write protected the disable command above will not work Restart the system to gain full system access Note All the above described commands can only be executed by an administrator or a user with administrator rights Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual E
11. rebooting the terminal may be necessary in some cases before restoring an image A dialog will open for you to confirm the delete command Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual 2 3 Automatic Image Backup Restore with Symantec Ghost Local MS DOS 6 22 Startup Menu 2 Restore ist partition from image leaving space for EWF partition 3 Create image of all partitions except EWF partition 4 Return To Main Menu Enter a choice 1 The menu content is described in the following sections Before starting a local restore put the restore file you wish to use in the main folder on the USB stick The creation process will also store images there 2 3 1 Restore Image se up down cursor keys to select a file Press Enter to choose it 635691 00 MTC6 WES7SP1 RUS EWF FBWF GHO 635692 00 MTC6 WES SP1 JAP EWF FBUF GHO 635693 00 MTC6 WES SP1 CHS EWF FBUF GHO 635695 00 MTC6 WES SP1 E EWF FBUF GHO When restoring an image automatically you will be asked to choose an image name from the list Only image files in the designated folder will be listed and only if their names are not longer than 50 char acters including the extension gho Important Note that automatic restore will delete existing disk partitions By choosing this menu option all partitions saved in the image file will be restored The whole allocatable space will be used on the storage medium Therefore the sizes of the partitions to be restored will be adju
12. sted proportionally if necessary and possible Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual 2 3 2 2 3 3 2 4 Restore 1st Partition from Image leaving space for EWF partition This option is similar to the above but differs by the following It is only possible to restore images which contain one saved partition The size of the partition to be restored will be adjusted so that just enough free space is left on the storage medium to allow the creation of an EWF partition Enhanced Write Filter Partition later Choosing this menu option is only useful and necessary if you want to restore an image of XP Embed ded or one of its successors and only if the operating system to be restored has been configured to use a special partition to store the configuration of the Enhanced Write Filter Create Image of all Partitions Except EWF Partition Enter a filename or use up down cursor keys to select one from the list 635691 00 MTC6 WES SP1 RUS EWF FBWF GHO 635692 00 MTC6 WES SP1 JAP EWF FBUF GHO 635693 00 MTC6 WES7SP1 CHS EWF FBWF GHO 635695 00 MTC6 WES7SP1 E EWF FBWF GHO Customized Image 01 gho_ When you choose to create an image automatically an image file will be saved to the root directory on the USB Stick The EWF Partition will not be saved with the image files You must enter the complete file name with the file ending in gho You can also select an existing file from the list and adjust this name for the image to be cr
13. ze Free segments Max Levels Max Protected Volumes Protected Volumes 64512 Protected volumes Device Name Device HarddiskVolume1 C HORM Not supported C Documents and Settings Administrator gt ewfmgr c Protected Volume Configuration Type RAM State DISABLED Boot Command NO_CMD Parami 15 Param2 15 Persistent Data Volume ID Device Name Device HarddiskVolumei C Max Levels 1 Clump Size 512 Current Level N A Memory used for data bytes Memory used for mapping bytes C Documents and Settings Administrator gt USB Stick 4 Change EWF State Enable Disable Commit 38 95 38 95 66 7E 66 BB BB HA BB BA HA HA Important If you don t see this output you must reinstall the image again from the You can change the state of the EWF by entering the following commands in a cmd window The EWF state can also be managed though the PTXConfig Psion Config software on the 8580 90 85 95 Vehicle Mount Computers ewfmar c enable ewfmar c commit ewfmar c disable Psion USB Stick Customer User Manual Activate the EWF no system changes possible after next restart Special command to write the changes to the storage medium while performing in Enabled mode After the restart the state is still Enabled Deactivate the EWF full system access after the next restart This only works with systems that work in RAM Mode systems that use an EWF partition to store the EWF configuration Cha
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