Related Service Information; Restoring The Factory Contents By Using Recovery Disc Set - Lenovo ThinkPad L412 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Related service information

This chapter presents following information:
v "Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery Disc Set"
v "Passwords" on page 56
v "Power management" on page 60
v "Symptom-to-FRU index" on page 62

Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery Disc Set

When the hard disk drive is replaced because of a failure, no product recovery
program is on the new hard disk. In this case, you must use the Recovery Disc Set
for the computer. Order the Recovery Disc Set and the hard disk drive at the same
time so that you can recover the new hard disk drive with the pre-installed
software when they arrive. For information on which discs to order, see "Recovery
discs" on page 218.
The recovery disc set consists of the user instructions and the following set of
DVDs to restore the computer to the original factory configuration.
Operating System Recovery Disc (one disc)
Applications and Drivers Recovery Disc (one or more discs)
Supplemental Recovery Disc
Notes:
v You must have a DVD drive to use the recovery discs. If you do not have an
v During the recovery process, all data on the hard disk drive will be deleted. If
To restore the computer to the original factory configuration using the recovery
disc set, do the following:
© Copyright Lenovo 2009, 2010
Service Web site:
When the latest maintenance diskette and the system program service diskette
become available, they will be posted on http://www.lenovo.com/spm
This disc restores the Microsoft
to start the recovery process.
This disc restores the preinstalled applications and drivers on the
computer.
This disc contains additional content, such as updates to the software that
was preinstalled on the computer. Not all recovery disc sets come with a
Supplemental Recovery Disc.
internal DVD drive, you can use an external USB DVD drive.
possible, copy any important data or personal files that you want to keep onto
removable media or a network drive before you start the recovery process.
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Windows operating system. Use this disc
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