Information About Hard Disk Capacity; Important Notice For Users - IBM ThinkPad R40 series Service Manual

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Important Wireless Regulatory Notice for Users

The ThinkPad R40 computer complies with the radio frequency and safety

standards of any country or region in which it has been approved for wireless

use. You are requested to install and use your ThinkPad computer in strict

accordance with the local RF regulations. Before you use the ThinkPad R40

computer, please find and read "Wireless Regulatory Notice for ThinkPad

R40," the notice that supplements this Service and Troubleshooting Guide.

The notice is included in the package with this publication.

Information about hard disk capacity

Instead of providing a recovery CD or a Windows

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associated with these CDs. The files and programs for these alternative

methods are on your hard disk, which eliminates having to locate misplaced

CDs and problems associated with using an incorrect CD version.

The complete backup of all the files and programs that IBM preinstalled on

your computer resides in a hidden section, or partition, of the hard disk.

Although hidden, the backups in the partition consume hard disk space.

Therefore, when checking the capacity of your hard disk according to

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smaller than anticipated. This discrepancy is explained by the contents of the

hidden partition.

For more information about recovering your hard disk to the original

preinstalled contents refer to your on-system help source, Access IBM. Press

the blue Access IBM button or click the Access IBM icon on your desktop, and

then browse the Learn section for various topics that cover backing up and

recovering.

provides simpler methods of accomplishing the tasks typically

you might note that the total capacity of the disk appears to be

CD with your computer,

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