{"id":351,"date":"2008-04-16T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/whitepaper-how-to-set-up-a-hidden-recovery-partition\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:12:46","slug":"whitepaper-how-to-set-up-a-hidden-recovery-partition","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/whitepaper-how-to-set-up-a-hidden-recovery-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper: How To Set Up A Hidden Recovery Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<strong>Please note: <\/strong>This article applies to version 1 product(s) only.<\/p><p>\r\nThere is a whitepaper available for download that covers how to set up\r\na hidden recovery (or restore) partition that would make use of Image\r\nFor DOS to perform the restore operation. <br \/>\r\n  <br \/>\r\nIt primarily covers the use of MBR.EXE, which is a free TeraByte\r\nUnlimited utility that can install a special version of MBR code\r\ndesigned specifically for this purpose. That code provides a means to\r\nboot into the hidden recovery partition so that the restore operation\r\ncan take place. The paper also covers how either TBOS or FreeDOS can be\r\nused (if desired) as the recovery partition's operating system.<br \/>\r\n    <br \/>\r\nThe downloadable zip file (mbrsetup.zip) linked to below also includes\r\na bootable floppy disk image, and an equivalent bootable CD\/DVD image,\r\neither of which can be used in conjunction with the whitepaper as an\r\naid in getting the recovery partition set up and working. <br \/>\r\n       <br \/>\r\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/downloads\/wp\/mbrsetup.zip\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download mbrsetup.zip<\/a><br \/>\r\n      <br \/>The bootable images contain MBR.EXE, but it can also be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/downloads\/mbr.zip\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">downloaded separately here.<\/a><br \/>\r\n       <\/p><p>Note: This article and the whitepaper referenced above are focused on IFD V1. An updated KB article and whitepaper for IFD V2 can be found at the link below:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=277\">How To Set Up A Hidden Recovery Partition (V2)<\/a><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: This article applies to version 1 product(s) only. There is a whitepaper available for download that covers how to set up a hidden recovery (or restore) partition that would make use of Image For DOS to perform the restore operation. It primarily covers the use of MBR.EXE, which is a free TeraByte Unlimited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1818],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-351","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-ifd-ifl-ifw-version-1-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/351\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}