Solving Recovery Problems; Creating And Using A Recovery Repair Diskette; Recovering Or Installing Device Drivers - Lenovo ThinkCentre M51e Quick Reference

Post-recovery notes
Notes:
1. After restoring a hard disk to the original factory contents you might have
to reinstall device drivers for some devices. See "Recovering or installing
device drivers" on page 17.
2. Some computers come with Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works
preinstalled. If you need to recover or reinstall your Microsoft Office or
Microsoft Works applications, you must use the Microsoft Office CD or
Microsoft Works CD. These CDs are provided only with computers that
come with Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works preinstalled.

Solving recovery problems

The Rescue and Recovery program workspace runs independently of the
operating system. In order to gain access to the workspace, press and hold the
Enter or F11 key during startup. If you are unable to start the Rescue and
Recovery program workspace using this method, you have three options:
v Use your rescue media (CD, DVD, or USB hard disk) to start the Rescue and
Recovery workspace. See "Creating and using rescue media" on page 16 for
details.
v Use a Recovery Repair diskette to reinstall a file that controls access to the
Rescue and Recovery workspace. See "Creating and using a Recovery Repair
diskette" on page 16 for details.
v If your intent is to restore the hard disk to its original factory contents, you
can use a set of Product Recovery discs. See "Creating and using product
recovery discs" on page 11.
It is a good idea to create a Recovery Repair diskette, rescue media, and a set
of Product Recovery discs as soon as possible and store them in a safe place as
a precautionary measure. If you are unable to access the Rescue and Recovery
workspace from rescue media or a set of Product Recovery CDs, you might not
have the rescue device (CD drive, DVD drive, or USB hard disk drive defined
as a startup device in the BIOS startup sequence. See "Setting a rescue device
in the startup sequence" on page 18 for more information.
Rescue media enables you to start the Rescue and Recovery program from CD,
DVD, or an externally attached USB hard disk drive). Rescue media is
extremely important if you are unable to access the Rescue and Recovery
program using the Enter or F11 key.
Chapter 3. Recovering software
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