Weird Factory Restore

I bought a refurbished T42 with XP and I use factory restore, the system restores itself but without any of the IBM Access software.

System Prep. pops up also. It seems like this is what the tech guy at IBM should see but not what the end user should see.

The machine seems to run great (boots fast, 19 starting processes, etc.) but another problem is that the hard drive is formatted in FAT.

Should I call tech support to fix this glitch or keep the system as is and convert FAT to NTFS? Is there any downfall in the second option?

 

if sysprep pop up hit reaseal?

seem odd that it wound restore like that

was maybe imaged for customer? and does have factorey ibm image installed

 

Weird..I know. IBM backup partition installed perfectly and I can boot up Rescue/Recovery by F11.

I did hit reseal and that gave me XP new user setup and everything works except no IBM software and a FAT32 drive.

Just found out that the XP's FAT32 to NTFS conversion app. is also missing.

 

goto RUN, type "cmd"......hit enter

in the command line type:

"CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS".......hit enter and follow the prompts.

DO NOT include the quotation marks.

 

I know the command line to convert it. The system just simply does not have the necessary autoconv.exe to do the conversion.

I have tried twice trying to reset back to factory via the partition and the recovery cd's. Both time, I get this weird installation.