Related Service Information; Restoring The Factory Contents By Using Product Recovery Discs - Lenovo 6457 - ThinkPad T61 - Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz Hardware Maintenance Manual

Related service information

This chapter presents following information:
v "Restoring the factory contents by using Product Recovery discs"
v "Passwords" on page 34
v "Power management" on page 37
v "Symptom-to-FRU index" on page 39

Restoring the factory contents by using Product Recovery discs

When the hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) is replaced because of a
failure, no Product Recovery program is on the new drive. In this case, you must
use the recovery discs for the computer. Order the recovery discs and the drive at
the same time so that you can recover the new drive with the pre-installed
software when they arrive. For information on which discs to order, see "Recovery
discs" on page 165.
To install the factory contents by using Product Recovery discs, do the following:
1. Insert the Rescue and Recovery Disk1 of 1 into the optical drive, then restart
2. When the "Welcome to Rescue and Recovery" screen is displayed, press
3. "Restore Your System" window appears. Select Restore my hard drive to the
4. The Terms and Conditions window appears, select I accept these terms and
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Note: Recovery takes several hours. The length of time depends on the method
you use. If you use recovery discs, recovery takes at least five hours.
the computer. This will take several minutes.
Continue. In the Rescue and Recovery menu, select Restore Your System. A
message giving a warning that USB devices used in recovery must be
connected when the computer is turned on appears. Click OK.
original factory state, and click Next. A warning appears, click Yes. Then next
menu appears. Select I do not want to save any files and click Next. Following
menu appears with a warning, select Next. A warning appears not to power
down the computer during the recovery process. Click OK. One more warning
appears saying that recovery is intended only for unrecoverable system
problems. Click OK.
conditions and press OK. Previous menus may remain on the screen, but the
Predesktop installer begins copying files. When this completes, the computer
will restart and a window will ask you to insert a Product Recovery
Supplemental Disk, if you have one. Press No.
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