Lenovo ThinkPad A31p ThinkPad A30/p, A31/p Hardware Maintenance Manual (Septem - Page 33
Using the recovery CD, Reinstall the Product Recovery program? Y/N [ ]
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Related service information Note: Network drivers are not automatically restored with Windows NT 4.0; you will need to reinstall them. Note: If you use Windows 2000 or Windows 98, restart the system by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del or by turning the computer off and then on again. The computer will restart with the pre-installed operating system, drivers, and software. Using the recovery CD To create the service partition and install the preloaded system from the recovery CD, do the following: To create the service partition: 1. Erase all partitions on the hard-disk drive, using FDISK or a similar application. 2. Boot with the recovery CD (and the boot diskette if required.) 3. Following message is displayed: "Your computer originally included a Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the Product Recovery program? (Y/N) [ ]". Note: If the hard-disk drive contains any partitions, you do not receive this message; go to step 1. 4. Press Y key. The service partition is created and loaded with the Product Recovery program files. 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. General descriptions 29