Using The Recovery Cd - IBM ThinkPad G40 Hardware Maintenance Manual

3. Turn on your computer. At the prompt, press the
Access IBM button. (The prompt "To interrupt normal
startup, press the blue Access IBM button" appears for
only a few seconds. You must press the Access IBM
button quickly.) The Access IBM Predesktop Area
appears on the screen. Next, double-click the "Recover
to factory contents" icon. The Product Recovery
program main menu opens.
4. Select the recovery options you want, and then follow
the instructions on the screeen.
5. When the Product Recovery program finishes, your
computer will restart and begin the configuration
process.

Using the recovery CD

You can delete the Access IBM Predesktop Area partition
by going into the BIOS Setup Utility (F1 at IBM Splash
Screen), and then choosing Security -> IBM Predesktop
Area --> Disabled. This will make the Access IBM
Predesktop Area available to FDISK. If you choose
Disabled, the following warning appears:
Attention! If you select Disabled, the IBM Predesktop Area
will be visible and can be reclaimed by the OS. Once the
area is overwritten by OS tools, it can't be used with
Normal or Secure again and you will need to obtain a
Recovery CD to retrieve original HDD. Please confirm that
you wish to select Disabled.
FDISK will not delete the Access IBM Predesktop Area
unless you do this, because it is not visible. You would
have to use IBM ThinkPad Maintenance Diskette to
completely wipe the drive.
To create the Access IBM Predesktop Area and install the
preloaded system from the recovery CD, do the following:
To create the Access IBM Predesktop Area:
1. Erase all partitions on the hard disk drive, using FDISK
or a similar application.
2. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if
required).
3. The following message is displayed: "Your computer
originally included a Product Recovery program ...
Reinstall the Product Recovery program? (Y/N) [ ]".
Note: If the hard disk drive contains any partition, you
do not receive this message; go to step 1.
4. Press the Y key. The Access IBM Predesktop Area is
created and loaded with the Product Recovery program
files.
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