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    Recreate recovery partition on Thinkpad X40?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by sprtnbsblplya, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. sprtnbsblplya

    sprtnbsblplya Notebook Deity

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    Is there a way to recreate a recovery partition on the hard drive of the Thinkpad X40 that is similar, if not identical, in function to the factory restore?
    I bought a X40 off eBay for a heckuva deal, and I want to recreate the restore partition.

    I have Partition Magic 8.0 and Ghost 12.0 at my disposal as well as XP Pro discs.

    I was really wanting it to work like, reboot, push F11 to bring up options, and restore from an internal invisible backup, just like a factory fresh one.

    I searched Google and found a couple websites that are close to what I'm looking for, but nothing that is spot on to recreating the partition to factory function.
     
    sprtnbsblplya, Jun 18, 2008
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  2. Jason404

    Jason404 Newbie

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    Please tell me if you ever manage to do this, as I want to be able to do the same. Have you asked in the ThinkPad forum?

    Do you have the Recovery Discs for the X40 by any chance? I have ones for the X31 on my FTP server, but I need the X40 ones to sort out the malware mess my dad brought back from his trip to China with my laptop.
     
    Jason404, Jul 22, 2008
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