[ale] thinkpad recovery

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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 Is it possible that your current R&R disk is outdated?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?

I'm not sure how it works, but I will say that whether you boot the 
recovery facility via the recovery disk or the 'blue button', 
(ThinkAdvantage on this laptop) you get the same boot screen and 
password prompt.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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