Copying Your OnDemand5 Repair Data to Your Hard Drive This document explains how to copy OnDemand5 Repair data to your hard drive, and how to configure your OnDemand software appropriately. The document is intended for your network professional as a practical guide for implementing Mitchell 1’s quarterly updates. Preparing your System You will need 24 Gigabytes of free space on a hard drive to hold the data contained on the three DVD’s. Be sure you have the necessary space before beginning this procedure. Turn off screen savers, power down options or any other program that may interfere with this process. Determine the drive letter of your DVD ROM drive and load the first DVD ROM disc into that drive. This example portrays the DVD ROM as drive D: and your hard drive as Drive R: You will copy each DVD ROM to its own subdirectory on the hard drive you have chosen. You may use Windows copy and paste or Xcopy. Our example will use Xcopy. Copying the DVD ROM Data With the first DVD in the D: drive go to a command prompt, usually done by selecting Start / Run and entering ‘CMD’ or ‘Command’ and hitting enter. With the DOS prompt window open enter the following command: Xcopy d: r:\1 /s/i/r/y and hit enter DOS window with xcopy command Page 1 of 6 February 2005 This will create a directory on the R: drive named ‘1’ and copy the contents of the DVD to that folder. Once the copy process is complete, perform similar step with disc 2 and 3 change the command appropriately. Next copy disc two using the command: Xcopy d: r:\2 /s/i/r/y and disc three using the command: Xcopy d: r:\3 /s/i/r/y . Configure OnDemand5 When the copy process is complete, view Drive R: from My Computer … My Computer showing folders for OnDemand DVD Data Please start OnDemand5 and proceed with setting up the data location and updating data OnDemand5 opening screen Page 2 of 6 February 2005 Click on the Update Data button to reveal the Update Wizard screen. Update Wizard screen On the Update Wizard screen put a check mark in the Repair Box and click Next. Updating Data – Repair Enter ‘ R:\1 ‘ as the drive letter for the OnDemand5 DVD and click on Next. Page 3 of 6 February 2005 Data Location Screen Enter R:\2 and R:\3 for Repair 2 and 3 and click Next. Copying Files Your system will copy the necessary files. Page 4 of 6 February 2005 Data Updated When the Data Updated window displays, you are ready to configure the remaining workstations on your network. Configure Remaining Workstations Configure the path to the copied DVD on each workstation by entering the appropriate path in the Data Paths window. The Data Path window is opened by clicking on Setup / Data path from the OnDemand5 home screen. Workstation Configuration Page 5 of 6 February 2005 Summary If you completed the steps outlined in this document, you are ready to begin accessing OnDemand5 directly from a shared hard drive location, rather than from Data DVDs. Your data lookups will be quicker than ever before. You will also no longer need to support multiple dedicated DVD ROM drives on your network. Be sure and put your Data DVDs in a safe place for re-installation in the case of hard drive crash, or other unforeseen hardware problem. Page 6 of 6 February 2005 .