Related Service Information; Service Web Site; Using Recovery Cd - IBM ThinkPad X20 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Related service information

This section provides information about the following:
v Service Website
v Passwords
v Power management

Service Web site

The latest maintenance diskette is available at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/partner/infotips/
The latest system program service diskette is available at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/support/thinkpad/tpopsys.html
or athttp://www.pc.ibm.com/partner/infotips/

Using Recovery CD

To create Service Partition and install the preloaded
system from Recovery CD, do the following;
To create Service Partition [SP]:
1. Erase all partitions on the hard-disk drive using FDISK
or similar application.
2. Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required).
3. A menu will appear stating "Your computer originally
included a Product Recovery program ... Reinstall
the Product Recovery Program? (Y/N) [ ]„.
Note: If the hard-disk drive contains any partitions, you
will not receive this menu - go to step 1.
4. Enter "Y„ and Service Partition will be created and
loaded with Product Recovery Program files.
Note: If you do not want to create Service Partition,
press "N„, and then go to the "Install preloaded
system from CD„ procedure.
5. Press"ENTER„at next window to continue.
v Service Partition will be created. System will
automatically reboot during this process.
v Recovery process will copy some files to the Service
Partition, PKUNZIP others
v Follow prompts - you may be prompted to change
CDs.
v System will reboot. When completed, continue with
"Install preloaded system from CD„ procedure to
install preloaded system.
Install preloaded system from CD:
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