[ale] thinkpad recovery

[Ron Mellema]

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Fowler
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:27 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] thinkpad recovery

Ron Mellema wrote:
>> -----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 Is it possible that your current R&R disk is outdated?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.
>>   
>
>How does that work?  Does this tell the BIOS to boot the second Windows 
>partition on disk?
>Or does this work only with the Windows boot loader?

Yes the blue button tells the BIOS to boot from the second partition.
This should work as long as someone did not format the drive and edit the
partition table.
C: drive does not have to work as long as the D: partition is intact.
Ron Mellema