Can't restore X40 Factory Contents

[jaschulz]

I have an X40 with the original Rescue and Restore Disk, and the original six install disks. I boot with R&R and run the restore factory contents process without error, but when the machine reboots it simply returns to the R&R environment. If I choose restore factory contents a second time, it wants to copy the six disks again. I actually let it do that once, but it didn't help. What am I doing wrong?

thanks,

JAS

[gismo_slawkam]

Excuse me for this silly question, but is the R&R CD is the CD drive while you are rebooting after completing the factory restore process? In such an eventuality, you could try ejecting it before the machine chooses to boot from it.

[jaschulz]

No, the R&R CD is no in the drive when I reboot.

I should have mentioned that in my earlier post.

JAS

[gismo_slawkam]

jaschulz, was the machine bootable, was there an operating system installed before you decided to restore to factory settings? I am not sure, but the problem could possibly be the faulty master boot record. I recovered mine using a CD I had downloaded from this post: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=56398

Hope this could help.