[ale] thinkpad recovery

[Christopher Fowler]

Ron Mellema wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:40 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] thinkpad recovery
>
>   
>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 19:04, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>>>       
> wrote:
>   
>>>> Hints would be greatly accepted...
>>>>         
>>> Is it possible that your current R&R disk is outdated?   I would
>>> suspect that the original T60 R&R disk would pre-date security
>>> "enhancements" in SP2 and SP3.
>>>       
>> I created the disk from the current environment.  It is running XP and 
>> will only boot if you boot to safe mode.  I booted to safe mode and 
>> created the rescue disk.
>>
>> All I want to do is reload this thing from scratch.
>>     
>
> On all IBM/Lenovo laptops there is a R&R partition, D: drive, that you can
> use to perform the recovery. To boot from this partition at the initial bios
> screen push the blue button on the keyboard that says "Access IBM"? It will
> load a screen that offers many options but one of them is restore factory
> files. I don't remember exactly the wording but if you follow the obvious
> and say I do not want to save any files it will result in a complete factory
> re-install. It will wipe the HD.
>   

How does that work?  Does this tell the BIOS to boot the second Windows 
partition on disk?
Or does this work only with the Windows boot loader?