Lenovo ThinkCentre A30 Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM) for ThinkCentre 2296, - Page 121
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Product Recovery Program The product recovery program is on a separate hard drive partition. At startup, the machine displays the following prompt: To start the Product Recovery Program, press F11 Attention: Make sure all data is backed up to avoid loss when the Product Recovery program is used. After depressing F11, you are given the following options. v Factory Contents This utility reformats the hard drive and restores all original files. v System utilities 1. Repair (Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 Only) This runs the Windows NT 4.0 emergency repair utility. 2. Run Diagnostics Runs the IBM Enhanced Diagnostic Program. 3. Create a Diagnostics Diskette Creates a bootable diagnostic diskette. 4. System Information Displays information about the computer configuration and allows the user to gather system information that would be needed during a Help Center call. 5. Create Recovery/Repair Diskette (Disk to Disk Solution Only) Creates a startable diskette to restore access to the IBM Product Recovery program on the hard disk. 6. Recovery CD In the event of a Hard Disk Drive failure, a Recovery CD can be used to restore the Hard Disk Drive to the original factory preset. Be sure to use the Recovery CD FRU list to obtain the proper recovery CD for the computer model you are servicing. Chapter 8. Additional Service Information 115