Related Service Information; Service Web Site; Using Recovery Cd - IBM ThinkPad X21 2660 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Related service information

This section provides information about the following:
Service Website
Passwords
Power management

Service Web site

The latest maintenance diskette is available at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/partner/infotips/
The latest system program service diskette is available at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/support/thinkpad/tpopsys.html
or athttp://www.pc.ibm.com/partner/infotips/

Using Recovery CD

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 ori-
ginally included a Product Recovery program ...
Reinstall the Product Recovery Program? (Y/N) [
]„.
Note: If the hard-disk drive contains any partitions,
you will not receive this menu - go to step 1.
4. Enter "Y„ and Service Partition will be created and
loaded with Product Recovery Program files.
Note: If you do not want to create Service Partition,
press "N„, and then go to the "Install pre-
loaded system from CD„ procedure.
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 completed, continue
with ""Install preloaded system from CD„ proce-
dure to install preloaded system.
Install preloaded system from CD:
1. Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required)
2. If the hard-disk drive is blank, a menu will appear
stating "Your computer originally included a
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