Chapter 6. Recovery Options; Introducing Rescue And Recovery; Restoring Factory Contents - Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Series Service And Troubleshooting Manual

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Chapter 6. Recovery options

If Windows is not running properly, you may need to do the following:

v Get the current system information.

v Diagnose and troubleshoot a problem.

v Rescue a file from your Windows environment or restore backed-up files,

provided you have made backups by use of the Rescue and Recovery

program.

v Configure your computer or start the BIOS Setup Utility.

All this can be achieved from the ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery

workspace. Turn on your computer, and, when the following message is

displayed, press the blue ThinkVantage button: "To interrupt normal startup,

press the ThinkVantage button." The ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery

workspace opens. For more information about using Rescue and Recovery

features, see the "Recovery overview" section of Access Help.

Instead of providing a recovery CD or a Windows CD with your computer,

Lenovo provides simpler methods of accomplishing the tasks typically

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 Lenovo preinstalled on

your computer resides in a hidden protected area, 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

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

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

hidden partition.

The Product Recovery Program contained within this area enables you to

restore the complete contents of your hard disk to the same state as it was

when originally shipped from the factory.

To recover the hard disk to its original contents, do the following:

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