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Hi all,

From the T60 manual book, i read that we can restoring T60 to the factory contents.
it said that we must press the ThinkVantage button when the Thinkpad Logo appear.
Then.. i've tried to do that, but every time i press the button "The Rescue and Recovery workspace" doesn't appear. I've clean installed my T60 using Windows XP SP2, may be the workspace is gone.

Please give me some suggestions


Thanks in advance

When you clean-installed Windows XP, did you wipe out the entire disk, or just install to an existing partition? If the latter, then your recovery partition should still be there and usable.

Do you have a set of recovery CDs?

you will need to order a set of recovery disks from IBM. It will cost you $51 shipped.

tomh009 wrote:When you clean-installed Windows XP, did you wipe out the entire disk, or just install to an existing partition? If the latter, then your recovery partition should still be there and usable.

Do you have a set of recovery CDs?

Thanks for the answer tomh009,

when i clean-installed, i only deleted the primary partition ( that is C: ) and created again. i've checked the computer management and i found that the "recovery partition" still healthy. But i can't recover it.

moosport wrote:you will need to order a set of recovery disks from IBM. It will cost you $51 shipped.

51$ Just made a copy yesterday. Will make one more

The partition is still there. You need to install Rescue and Recovery ( the app) in order to have the proper MBR for the blue button to work.

The you can do a factory recovery.

moosport wrote:you will need to order a set of recovery disks from IBM. It will cost you $51 shipped.

waw thanks for u'r information. btw can we download it ?

wackydan wrote:The partition is still there. You need to install Rescue and Recovery ( the app) in order to have the proper MBR for the blue button to work.

The you can do a factory recovery.

i've installed it to, but the MBR isn't replaced yet.

MoveZ wrote: i've installed it to, but the MBR isn't replaced yet.

Read "hypertrophy" post (near bottom) in the following about using the "Rescue and Recovery Repair Diskette" to correct the MBR problem:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 945#325945

P.S. You can find more info on the Rescue and Recovery Repair Diskette" by doing a search on those words.

MoveZ wrote:i've installed it to, but the MBR isn't replaced yet.

You need Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette. Keep in mind the factory restore is going to wipe out your entire HDD.