4. Select the disk drive to defragment. This speeds up disk access and saves space by consolidating file fragments into contiguous units. Restarting the OmniBook In certain situations you may want to restart the OmniBook. For example, you may have made a change in a system file and now want to make that change active—so you need to reboot the OmniBook. Under certain unpredictable conditions, the operating system may unexpectedly get stuck in a state where nothing seems to work—so you may need to reset the OmniBook. This section shows how to • Reboot the OmniBook to load the software again. • Reset the OmniBook for a hardware check and reboot.
Rebooting the OmniBook Rebooting essentially starts up the OmniBook software from scratch—your current work session is discarded, and the operating system rereads the system files to determine the proper configuration. This is the same as rebooting a PC. To reboot normally (from drive C) 1. Click Start, Shut Down, then click a shut-down option. (If the OmniBook has stopped responding, try pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL.) In certain situations, you might need to press the reset button . 2. If your OmniBook doesn't restart successfully, press CTRL+ALT+DEL again, but when Starting Windows ... appears on the display, press F8. Then choose the log option or another option and investigate the problem.
See "Solving Problems." If your system doesn’t succeed with a normal reboot, one or more of your system files on drive C may be bad. If you have a floppy boot disk available, you can reboot from the floppy drive (see “To reboot from a floppy disk” below)—or you can selectively reboot from drive C. See "If the OmniBook doesn't reboot successfully." To reboot from a floppy disk 1. Plug in the OmniBook floppy drive. 2. Insert a good “boot” disk in the drive—a system disk , which contains system files. You can use your Support Utility disk. 3. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot from the floppy disk. If you are using the Support Utility disk, choose the Minimum Startup option.
This starts the OmniBook in a fixed, minimum configuration that facilitates recovery: 50