[ltp] Restoring thinkpad with linux to factory settings

Meidinger Chris linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:29:42 +0100


Really? Very cool!

I've tried it on several recent models, including my own T42p, and it always
killed the whole disk.

I stand corrected.

Greetings from Freiburg ;)

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org 
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of 
> Hartmut Meyer
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:19 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Restoring thinkpad with linux to factory settings
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 14:50, Meidinger Chris wrote:
> > The newer Recovery will wipe the whole drive.
> >
> > The older Recovery used to take the first partition, but that ended 
> > with
> > T23/A30/X21
> 
> I lately had to do a recovery on my T41p and it didn't wipe 
> the whole disk, but only the first primary partition. My 
> Linux partitions were left untouched. Only thing I had to do 
> was to reinstall grub into the MBR.
> 
> Yes, I did have a backup just in case. And I would advise you 
> to have one as well.
> 
> 
> Greetings from Stuhr
> hartmut
>