strange problem when trying to access service partition

[bilalmuddassir]

On my X60s, I have the following hard disk

Disk 0
C: 29.29 GB NTFS Healthy (System) Pri
59.22 GB Free Space
SERVICEV001 4.64 GB FAT32 Healthy (EISA Configuration)

When I boot and hit F11 and/or press blue ThinkVantage button, I am not taken into service routine for restoring factory default.

What might be the cause of the problem and how to solve it?

Thanks,

[ryengineer]

If you've ever tried to install another Operating System over the default factory installation then that might have corrupted MBR.

Solution: Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

[Ideasmiths]

If you don't have a floppy drive like many of us.

a) If you don't have RnR4, download and install it, it may solve the lost blue button issue.

b) If you prefer to do factory re-installation and solve the blue button button as well as get a lean mean machine, try this
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

[bilalmuddassir]

I recently got X60s from someone who had put Windows XP Professional on it from some OEM disk, had made two partitions. The service partition was there but was not accessible with blue button and there was no option using F11.

I merged two partitions into one using USB disk booting live image of GPARTED but it didn't help.

I don't have CDRW so ISO images of rescue media was not an option. I don't have floppy drive so I couldn't burn MBR fixing tools on 1.44MB disks. I even tried virtual floppy drive, failed.

RR 4.1, I think the latest version, works charmingly well.

Thanks so much for pointing it out.

PS: I have to tell that RR 4.1 wasn't installing when I had total 3 partitions, service partition being /dev/hda3. After merging the first two, RR 4.1 installed just fine. I wonder why this is so. Anyway thanks again fellas!