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i wanted to reinstall winnows xp from the hidden partition with rescue and recovery, but i dont know how to access it. when i press thinkvantage button during boot i only get option to access bios, nothing for rescue and recovery. am i doing something wrong?

what should i do if i want to reinstall win?

Can you boot into windows and "Create Recovery Set"?

Perhaps there is no hidden partition or it needs to be repaired:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

yes. i am doing it right now. so i can reinstall it from the disks it creates?

ryengineer wrote:Perhaps there is no hidden partition or it needs to be repaired:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

is there a way to run it from a cd?

orangen wrote:

ryengineer wrote:Perhaps there is no hidden partition or it needs to be repaired:
Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

is there a way to run it from a cd?

No. I don't believe so. This package will do the following:

This package creates a bootable diskette that can be used to repair a corrupt boot sector on your primary hard drive. This package can also be used to reenable the F11 function as long as the service partition has not been removed from your hard drive.

On the other hand Product Recovery Disks will put your machine back to out of the box factory state.

ryengineer wrote:On the other hand Product Recovery Disks will put your machine back to out of the box factory state.

does that include fresh win install or just empty disk with r&r partition on it?

thanks btw

orangen wrote:does that include fresh win install or just empty disk with r&r partition on it? thanks btw

This thread will give you an idea what Product Recovery Disks include.