T21 blue button

[aljohn]

Just a quickie, on my T21 there are 2 red buttons, the left and right click (how's that for a technical description?) below them is a wide blue button. What is the blue button for? It never seemed to do anything and now I've fitted a new hard drive I 've lost the small Thinkpad partition. I don't know if there was any help in there, but I never found any. So, what's the blue button do, and is it worth downloading any Thinkpad software (for Thinkpad button, pc doctor, etc?)
Thanks for reading

[Neil]

By default the middle mouse button is just that, a middle mouse button, which in Linux is used for the Paste operation. But you can configure it to do just about anything. I use mine as a "scroll wheel".

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_co ... TrackPoint

If you are using Windows, I think you will need the TrackPoint driver and the TrackPoint Accessibility driver for Windows from the Lenovo Support download site.

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/default.page?

[robert213]

and now I've fitted a new hard drive I 've lost the small Thinkpad partition.

I once lost my IBM Service partition (containing Windows XP install programs) during a fresh Windows XP install using my IBM T30 Recovery CD(s).

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=62150

If you have intialized your new HD properly, you will see the message...

"Reinstall Product Recovery Program into hidden area (hidden partition) 1.7 GB?"

If you do not re-intialize HD with DOS FDisk or Win XP Disk Management Utility, you will never see the message.