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Notes:

1. After restoring your hard disk drive to the factory default settings, you might have to reinstall device

drivers for some devices. See “Reinstalling preinstalled programs and device drivers” on page 61.

2. Some computers come with Microsoft Office preinstalled. If you need to recover or reinstall your

Microsoft Office programs, you must use the

Microsoft Office CD

. These discs are provided only with

computers preinstalled with Microsoft Office.

Creating and using a rescue medium

With a rescue medium, such as a disc or a USB hard disk drive, you can recover the computer from failures
that prevent you from gaining access to the Rescue and Recovery workspace on your hard disk drive.

Notes:

1. The recovery operations you can perform using a rescue medium vary depending on the operating

system.

2. The rescue disc can be started in all types of optical drives.

Creating a rescue medium

To create a rescue medium on the Windows 7 operating system, do the following:

1. From the Windows desktop, click

Start

➙

All Programs

➙

Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools

➙

Enhanced

Backup and Restore

. The Rescue and Recovery program opens.

2. In the Rescue and Recovery main window, click the

Launch advanced Rescue and Recovery

arrow.

3. Click the

Create Rescue Media

icon. The Create Rescue and Recovery Media window opens.

4. In the

Rescue Media

area, select the type of the rescue medium you want to create. You can create a

rescue medium using a disc, a USB hard disk drive, or a secondary internal hard disk drive.

5. Click

and follow the instructions on the screen to create a rescue medium.

Using a rescue medium

This section provides instructions on how to use the rescue medium you have created.

• If you have created a rescue medium using a disc, use the following instructions to use the rescue medium:

1. Turn off your computer.

2. Repeatedly press and release the F12 key when turning on the computer. When the Boot Menu

window is displayed, release the F12 key.

3. In the Boot Menu window, select the desired optical drive as the first boot device. Then, insert the

rescue disc into the optical drive and press Enter. The rescue medium starts.

• If you have created a rescue medium using a USB hard disk drive, use the following instructions to

use the rescue medium:

1. Attach the USB hard disk drive to one of the USB connectors on your computer.

2. Repeatedly press and release the F12 key when turning on the computer. When the Boot Menu

window opens, release the F12 key.

3. In the Boot Menu window, select the USB hard disk drive as the first boot device and press Enter.

The rescue medium starts.

• If you have created a rescue medium using the secondary internal hard disk drive, set the secondary

internal hard disk drive as the first boot device in the startup device sequence to start the rescue medium.

When the rescue medium starts, the Rescue and Recovery workspace opens. The help information for
each feature is available from the Rescue and Recovery workspace. Follow the instructions to complete
the recovery process.

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