[ale] thinkpad recovery

Ron Mellema rmellema at exithere.com
Sun Jan 11 23:18:56 EST 2009


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:40 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] thinkpad recovery

>Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 19:04, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:
>>> Hints would be greatly accepted...
>> 
>> Is it possible that your current R&R disk is outdated?   I would
>> suspect that the original T60 R&R disk would pre-date security
>> "enhancements" in SP2 and SP3.
>
>I created the disk from the current environment.  It is running XP and 
>will only boot if you boot to safe mode.  I booted to safe mode and 
>created the rescue disk.
>
>All I want to do is reload this thing from scratch.

On all IBM/Lenovo laptops there is a R&R partition, D: drive, that you can
use to perform the recovery. To boot from this partition at the initial bios
screen push the blue button on the keyboard that says "Access IBM"? It will
load a screen that offers many options but one of them is restore factory
files. I don't remember exactly the wording but if you follow the obvious
and say I do not want to save any files it will result in a complete factory
re-install. It will wipe the HD.

Ron Mellema




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