IBM 2681 Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 34
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Related service information Note: If you do not want to create the service partition, press N key, and then go to step 8. 5. At next window, press Enter to continue. v The service partition is created. The system automatically reboots during this process. v The recovery process copies some files to the service partition, and PKUNZIPs others. v Follow the prompts. You may be prompted to change CDs. v When the process is complete, the system reboots. Continue to step 6 to install preloaded system. Install preloaded system from CD: 6. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if required.) 7. If the hard-disk drive is blank, the following message is displayed: "Your computer originally included a Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the Product Recovery program? (Y/N) [ ]". v To install the service partition, go to step 4. v To preload the hard-disk drive without installing the service partition, press N key. 8. If you get a message asking which operating system to install, select the proper operating system and press Enter. 9. A message is displayed: "Full Recovery:". Press Enter to select. 10. On each of the next three windows, press the Y key. 11. Follow the prompts to complete the recovery. Passwords As many as three passwords may be needed for any ThinkPad computer: the power-on password (POP), the hard-disk password (HDP), and the supervisor password (SVP). If any of these passwords has been set, a prompt for it appears on the screen whenever the computer is turned on. The computer does not start until the password is entered. Exception: If only an SVP is installed, the password prompt does not appear when the operating system is booted. 30 ThinkPad R40