Using The Recovery Cd - IBM ThinkPad T21 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Note: Network drivers are not automatically restored
with Windows NT 4.0; you will need to reinstall
them.
Note: If you use Windows 2000 or Windows 98,
restart the system by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or
by turning the computer off and then on again.
The computer will restart with the pre-installed
operating system, drivers, and software.

Using the recovery CD

To create the service partition and install the preloaded
system from the recovery CD, do the following:
To create the service partition:
1. Erase all partitions on the hard-disk drive, using FDISK
or a similar application.
2. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if
required.)
3. Following message is displayed: "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
do not receive this message; go to step 1.
4. Press Y key. The service partition is created and
loaded with the Product Recovery program files.
Note: If you do not want to create the service partition,
press N key, and then go to step 8.
5. At next window, press Enter to continue.
v The service partition is created. The system
automatically reboots during this process.
v The recovery process copies some files to the
service partition, and PKUNZIPs others.
v Follow the prompts. You may be prompted to
change CDs.
v When the process is complete, the system reboots.
Continue to step 6 to install preloaded system.
Install preloaded system from CD:
6. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if
required.)
7. If the hard-disk drive is blank, the following message
is displayed: "Your computer originally included a
Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the
Product Recovery program? (Y/N) [ ]".
v To install the service partition, go to step 4.
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