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Recovery of IBM T60 settings

post #1 of 5
12/13/08 at 1:14am
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Hi,

I am new to this forum. I need help on a real tough situation


I bought a new IBM Thinkpad T60 few months back. It had a Windows XP OS on it.For some R&D purposes, I formatted the IBM T60 and tried loading Windows 2000 server OS, but failed. I forgot to take backup of old OS settings. And I dont have a Windows XP backup also .

I called up IBM Technical Support and have asked for Recovery CDs for IBM T60. They will send me the recovery CDs

My question is will the Recovery CDs have the Windows XP OS on it ?

Please let me know if any hints to this.

Thanks,
Jiby
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post #2 of 5
12/20/08 at 4:40pm
The recovery CDs would allow you to access the Service Partition on the drive. This is where an exact copy of your shipped system is. Most (if not all) recovery CDs do not contain the OS installation disk.

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post #3 of 5
12/29/08 at 5:42am
The recovery CD should allow your machine to recover back to out of factory condition (software), same result as the ThinkVantage button function. But if you are going to try install new OS into it you might need the recovery CD again in future .. as you can't copy the Service partition (recovery) data out as setup disk, they are only useful if your ThinkVantage function is working.
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post #4 of 5
1/28/09 at 10:37am
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Originally Posted by clli160 View Post
The recovery CD should allow your machine to recover back to out of factory condition (software), same result as the ThinkVantage button function. But if you are going to try install new OS into it you might need the recovery CD again in future .. as you can't copy the Service partition (recovery) data out as setup disk, they are only useful if your ThinkVantage function is working.
Sorry to jump in here, just to clarify:

do the recovery discs require the service partition to be there on the drive to work, or will the discs work even if the entire drive has been wiped, including removal of service partitions?
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post #5 of 5
1/29/09 at 9:08am
Some would require the presence of the recovery partition to work; some don't. Consulting the user guide that comes with one's model is the best bet for the correct answer.

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