Could anyone spend a copy of his/her CD with R60 software?

[cuneiform]

I've bought an R60 at the eBay, and it has come without any CD at all. Now, I can see that some 35 Gb of the HDD cannot be followed (!), i.e., are hidden and missed (!). The former owner seems to have had a hidden virtual drive, but I don't know how to revoke it. I think I will have to format the whole 80Gb partition anew. Maybe, someone would like to help me and copy his/her accompanying CD with that software (drivers, WinXp, etc.). Otherwise, I don't know how to proceed. THX.

[whizkid]

Which license is attached to the machine? XP Home? XP Pro? Vista Business?

EDIT: And for which language?

And welcome to the forum!

[ZaZ]

Can you burn off the recovery discs? The R60 should offer this option unless the original owner burned them off. You're only allowed to make one copy.

[scosgt1]

Press the Access ThinkPad button when you see the IBM logo on startup.
This should get you into the hidden partition, do a full recovery from there, the newly installed OS will have a utility for making recovery CD's

[cuneiform]

Thanks for the replies above. I've bought this R60 at the USA eBay, so its keyboard is American, and the licence is XP Pro; +BlueTooth, +WLAN, etc. T2300 @ 1,66 GHz, 1 Gb RAM, 80 GM HDD. Should there also an accompanying CD with software be available, please? Or a recovery option through the ThinkVantage button only? My concern is that after installing Partition Magic, I can see only ONE main partition (C) on the drive, and 74,5 GB drive space available. On the C drive I can also see an i386 directory of 553 Mb with software, but there is no setup.exe file in this folder. Through the ThinkVantage button I can reach the three recovery options indeed. However, I'd like to have got some safety through a CD before to proceed further while lacking some 35 GB on that drive, which eventually might be ascribed to system backups (?). Now, the question will arise: If so, then is it ok that those lacking 35 GB of such backups would in fact be hidden or virtual?! - The functionality seems to be ok at present, and I would not like to intervene drastically though lacking some 35 GB (one half!) is not 'very good' indeed. If I presuppose that the former owner has burned off one copy, does it mean that any other CDs CANNOT (not MAY NOT) be burned off due to a program script?

To tell the truth, it's perhaps a false idea with the backups, since I have seen the options, and the files created do not seem to be virtual or hidden.

[SHoTTa35]

the thinkvantage option is what you should use. it will format the system 100% back to what it was whe it was shipped from the factory. So that 35GB thing you're talkinga bout would be wiped away too.

From the 3 options choose the one at the bottom which is restore factory defaults or something like that.

BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA TO ANOTHER DRIVE FIRST

As i said, doing that will wipe all other data from the drive and bring it back to it's original settings as it was shipped from the factory.

[cuneiform]

SHoTTa35
Senior Member

Well, apropos of choosing one of the three options I seem to be enlighted, but can you tell me please where this distributive has been kept alive then. In order just not to let it get formatted through the format c: operation if the recovery through the third option should fail?-There is no other partition on this HDD, as stated by the Partition Magic software .