Thinkpads Forum

Hey folks,

I am trying to restore the OS from the recovery partition, the OS partition has been deleted

How do I access the recovery partition?

Hold down the Thinkvantage button when the machine boots.

ok

it gives me the boot options, DVD, LAN, and hard-drive, but I don't seen anything about recovery...

Use the recovery CD set that you made when you first turned the machine on to restore the partition, or the recovery CD set that was shipped with the machine.

hey

I found my own solution, using a Recovery Repair Diskette downloaded from Lenovo:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 54483.html

this way i was able to restore the MBR and reinstall using my recovery partition without having to pay for the recovery CD (which SHOULD have been sent FREE with the computer, IMHO)

Now I'll do the smart thing and create some R&R DVDs from the bare system (like I should have done in the first place!)

Thanks!

Touch the blue button once, definitively, and for a short period during bootup before Windows boots and when the screen has "THINKPAD
to interrupt normal bootup press the blue button" on it. If you hold the button down during bootup, you can get the boot menu instead of booting into the recovery partition.

Once in the service partition, select "advanced rescue and recovery" if your version is new enough (v4.x) to have the "simplified interface" as default. Choose "restore my system."

If you have a new system, it is always good form to make a set of recovery media, then boot up into the recovery space and select "custom restore" when prompted in the "restore my system" procedure. You can then restore the system to factory contents but without the bloatware that you don't want, such as everything Norton and about half of the Thinkvantage stuff.

Ken Fox wrote:Once in the service partition, select "advanced rescue and recovery" if your version is new enough (v4.x) to have the "simplified interface" as default. Choose "restore my system."

That option doesn't ppear to me anymore... but it used to. Anyone knows what the problem might be?