did reseal and finished install however had to do manual driver download and setup,disk is still fat32 and win prompts for activation so rnr service partition turned out to be useless for reinstalling XP As for activation I understand I actually did a clean install option B like they do for Vista ht...

after nuked mbr by linux managed to start install xp from the service partition(but not directly from within because it stopped saying -Product recovery failed to restore) and got to the point wher upon boot, xp actually sysprep, says- do Factory?do Manual Audit or Reseal?(and of course Xp wants pro...

need to put service partition to cd/dvd and to make those bootable to be able to reinstall xp from them, if it is non dos partition as https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/thinkpad$20service$20partition/ibm.ibmpc.thinkpad/UTo5YH1BJMQ/xzslcT7giDEJ then it is tricky? or you can do smth...

have situation where MBR of T43 was damaged ( by Ubuntu installation) and now neither Windows nor service- recovery partition can start I downloaded and used IBM,Lenovo repairmbr cd/option1-repair mbr;it said-"not a lenovo mbr " (but it did write something because now Ubuntu cannot start either-I ju...

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