at your earliest opportunity, create a recovery-repair diskette and store it in a safe place. in the unlikely event that your windows desktop becomes unusable, you can use the recovery-repair diskette to access the product recovery program.

    additional information about the diskette is in access ibm. for information about using this diskette, see “using the emergency recovery-repair diskette” on page 87.

    complete the following steps to create a recovery-repair diskette:

    1. from access ibm, click the how do i... tab; then, click protect data.

    2. click creating emergency diskettes.

    3. click recovery repair diskette.

    4. follow the instructions on the screen.