IBM thinkpad r30 Hardware Maintenance Manual page 36

1. Save all files and shut down the desktop.
2. Turn off the computer.
3. Turn on the computer. Quickly press F11 when this
message is displayed on the screen: ..."To start the
Product Recovery program, press F11" .....This
message is displayed for only a few seconds.
Note: If this message does not appear, you can use a
Recovery Repair diskette to get access to the
Product Recovery program.(see"Creating a
Recovery Repair diskette" on page 31 for
instructions for making the Recovery Repair
diskette)
4. From the list displayed on the screen, select the
operating system you want to recover.
5. Select the recovery options you want, and follow the
instructions on the screen.
Creating the Service Partition
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,
4. Enter "Y" and Service Partition will be created and
loaded with D2D files.
Note: If you do not want to create Service Partition,
5. Press "Enter" at next window to continue.
* Service Partition will be created. System will
automatically reboot during this process.
* Recovery process will copy some files to the Service
Partition, PKUNZIP others
* Follow prompts - you may be prompted to change
CDs.
* System will reboot when complete, continue to step
6 to install preloaded system.
Install preloaded system from CD:
6. Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required)
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you will not receive this menu - go to step 1.
press "N" , and the d then go to step 8.