Recovery Parition

[AJJ]

Hello There,

bymistake I deleted the hidden partition for my z60m laptop. Is there any way to recover that partition or downlod dvd for original windows from lenovo?

Please help...

[sarbin]

i'm pretty sure you cannot restore the hidden partition from a dvd/cd iso, unless we're talking about the ibm/lenovo recovery cds and restoring the complete system to factory state.

if that's what you want to do, you might like to post a "wtb" in the marketplace forum or send a pm to tpcollector, who sells a number of sets for less than ibm/lenovo. not sure about 'z' series, though.

alternatively, someone might be able to make and send you a copy, but that might be of questionable copyright legality.

cheers.

[AJJ]

sorry I ment x61s, the hidden partition for lenovo recovery has been formatted. How I can restore the oirginal setting, is there any way by DVD.

[sarbin]

do you mean that you want to recover the entire machine back to it's original factory state, which include the recovery partition?

[AJJ]

yes, I want to recover the original factory but as you know i deleted that partition (the recovery one) I think I have to request DVD recovery !!!

Or

If I buy a copy of windows vista and using the Product Key comes with my laptop, is it ok?? or I have to use the original CD for Vista.

Because I formatted my laptop and it is running now on Windows XP PRO. And I can not back to Vista after deleted the recovery partition.

Please advice...

thanks again Sarbin

[sarbin]

the way you can recover the machine to 'factory-fresh state' is to get a hold of the appropriate ibm/lenovo recovery disk set. you can pm tpcollector on this forum. have a look at this:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=62221
you could also post a "wtb/lf" message in 'marketplace' and see if someone else could supply you with a set.

once you have a set, enter your machine's bios and make sure that your cd drive is listed as the first boot device. then put the first r&r cd into the drive and reboot. after that just follow the directions and 60-90 minutes later, your machine will have a fresh image installed and will have a rebuilt hidden recovery partition.

does this help?

[AJJ]

Genuine IBM Recovery CDs for X30 X31 X32 X40 X41 X60

my laptop is not listed. And the original windows is Vista not XP.

I will contact tpcollector.

anyway, Thanks very much Sarbin for help.

[sarbin]

sorry. i misread your model.

if tpcollector can't help you out, post in the marketplace just in case someone else has a set.

cheers