IBM MT 2675 Laptop User Manual


 
Related service information
This section provides information about the following:
v Service Web site
v Using Recovery CD
v Passwordson page 22
v Power managementon page 24
Service Web site
When the latest maintenance diskette and the system
program service diskette are available, a notice will be
posted on http://www.pc.ibm.com/partner/infotips/
Using Recovery CD
To create Service Partition and install the preloaded
system from Recovery CD, do the following;
To create Service Partition [SP]:
1. Erase all partitions on the hard-disk drive using FDISK
or similar application.
2. Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required).
3. A menu will appear stating 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
will not receive this menu go to step 1.
4. Enter Y and Service Partition will be created and
loaded with D2D files.
Note: If you do not want to create Service Partition,
press N, and then go to step 8.
5. Press ENTER at next window to continue.
v Service Partition will be created. System will
automatically reboot during this precess.
v Recovery process will copy some files to the Service
Partition, PKUNZIP others.
v Follow prompts you may be prompted to change
CDs.
v System will reboot when complete, continue to step
6 to install preloaded system.
Install preloaded system from CD:
6. Boot with Recovery CD (and boot diskette if required)
7. If the hard-disk drive is blank, a menu will appear
stating Your computer originally included a
Product Recovery program ... Reinstall the
Product Recovery Program? (Y/N) [ ].
v To install Service Partition, go to step 4.
v To preload hard-disk drive without installing Service
Partition, press N.
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