David wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message:

Have you checked, that the partition in question was created ?
The manual, shows a couple screen shots of "Disk Management"
in Windows, where a new partition has been created up near
the end of the hard drive.

Also, is F9 offered as an option, at the bottom of the screen ?

The manual mentions these options at the bottom of the screen.

DEL BIOS Setup F9 XpressRecovery2 F12 BootMenu End QFLash

Paul

Hi Paul. I appreciate your help here. Disk Manager showed the newly
created partition among the unallocated space. If I remember correctly,
it was a "healthy" 40GB. And there is still an additional 40GB of
unallocated space besides the partition created by Xpress Recovery2. So
I left enough space on the drive. Also, the backup stated that it
completed successfully. Is the a log somewhere that I might be able to
look at?

Also, the line you show above is exactly how it appears at the bottom of
my POST screen. And everything else works except F9.

Well, I'm running out of things to suggest.

Is it possible there is a difference in response, between
using a PS/2 keyboard, versus a USB keyboard ?

Does the F12 boot menu work ? That would help prove the
Fn keys work at the BIOS level.

It might be interesting, to plug in a PCI Port 80 POST
debugger card, just to see if there is any response
noted on the display, when F9 is pressed. That might
tell you, if the key was actually routed to a BIOS
code module or not.

I can find one report here, of someone trying Xpress
Recovery2 on another board. And they got it to work.

http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...4?dmode=source

I tried looking for motherboard reviews, but all I
could find is reviews making derogatory references
to the feature, and not bothering to test it.

Paul