Restore T42 to factory form

[Binglehopper]

Hello Everyone,

Have a quick question, I'm not sure if this is a possible thing to do, but I faintly remember reading that using IBM's factory installed partition, it's possible to restore my computer to factory form (and I guess esentially reformatting?).

I've been trying to remember how to do this, but am drawing a blank . Any on how to do this help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Greg

[kevinh]

Reboot and press the blue Access IBM button. The recovery console will launch and you can then restore factory contents.

Kevin

[sktn77a]

And if that doesn't work, try F11 (sometimes, for some reason, the blue Access IBM button doesn't work).

[Binglehopper]

do you think "restoring factory contents" is the best option to start if I wanted to get a "clean system", assuming I didn't want to reformat the drive and use the recovery CD's? If not, are there better options?

[Leon]

yes