Try holding down the blue ThinkVantage key when you power up the machine. There should be a message about this below the IBM/ThinkPad logo at boot time.
2010/6/10 Jaroslav Dostál <[email protected]> > I have got the pre-owned Thinkpad T60p. The previous owner did me „a > favour“, and he reformatted the disk and installed fresh plain Win7 there. > Consequently the old licensed WinXP is gone, as well as all IBM utilities > including ThinkVantage. No Recovery CDs available, of course, and system > does not offer F11 during boot to initiate Recovery. Fortunately, the WinXP > COA sticker is intact. > > I inspected the disk from Windows and I can see two partitions there, the > one is 3.74GB healthy primary partition, no drive letter, no file system. I > believe this may be the HPA recovery partition. The size is about right, > however without ThinkVantage I do not know how to initiate it for system > recovery. > > Is there a way how to restore the original WinXP in this situation, at > least to make the small partition accessible during boot and/or inspect its > content? Preferably to perform recovery at once. > > Can anybody help me here, please? I would appreciate so much. > > Thanks, > > Jaroslav > > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
