ThinkPad T61 Windows XP [ ] [| ] Windows XP and Rescue & Recovery Factory Recovery Media What medai? These machines don't ship with recovery media.
You can purchase a set from Lenovo, but if you have a burner on your laptop you can and should make your own. Make a CD + DVD set (if you have a DVD burner, otherwise it's a many CD set) once you have the machine up and running.
The CD will hold the recovery utilities and the DVD holds the actual factory image. Start->ThinkVantage->Create Recovery Media (Recovery Disks) You only get to do this once. Some kind of silly MS licensing thing. Not to say you can't copy the resulting media - and you should. You will get to do it again if you upgrade the rescue and recovery software at some point.
Lenovo PC- No Recovery Disc - Cannot Reset-Refresh-Automatic Repair- What now? By doit2 on Mar 22, 2015 at 15:27 UTC General Windows. The IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad 61 laptop computer comes with a one-button utility called Rescue and Recovery that lets the user back up important files or the entire hard drive, restore backed up files or a full disk and restore the computer to factory-default settings.
XP What can I say. To its credit, it isn't Vista. At least Lenovo makes these laptops available with XP installed and all the appropriate drives in place. In fact, they recognize that even folks who bought a ThinkPad with Vista installed may want to 'down license' to XP: Performance • Slow shutdown. This laptop should be pretty quick. 2GHz dual-core CPU and 2G of RAM and (now) a 7200RPM hard drive.
It is reasonably quick once it is booted. Booting seems a little slow and shutdown is irritatingly slow. Occasionally really slow. Most of this is likely due to all the crap that Lenovo starts up at boot time. I'm gradually eliminating the useless garbage. The shutdown issues may be caused by applications that don't release resources correctly at logout. Microsoft has a tool that might help with this.
It can force the release of resources (maybe) and log the bad actors so they can be dealt with: On my T61 the XP event viewer application log consistently shows this at shutdown: Source UPHClean: The following handles in user profile hive have been remapped because they were preventing the profile from unloading successfully: tvt_reg_monitor_svc.exe (2396) HKCU (0xc0) HKCU (0xd4) HKCU (0xd8) HKCU (0xdc) This points to the ThinkVantage Registry Monitor Service. I haven't been able to find out WTF this does. Things seem to run OK with it turned off. I was able to improve shutdown times by editing the registry and changing how long XP waits for services to finish before killing them. On my P4 deskside box, this value was 20000, which equates to a 20 second wait.
On the T61, it was set to 190000! I have changed this to 30000 and it usually shortens shutdown to around 30 seconds. Occasionally not - and I haven't figured out why yet. If you fiddle with this, beware.
You risk hosing the registry. Making it too short could force terminate services that were still legitimately shutting down. Run->regedit->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SYSTEM->CurrentControlSet->Control WaitToKillServiceTimeout Other keys that affect shutdown timeouts (but seem sane on the T16) are: HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Control Panel->Desktop HungAppTimeout (5000) and WaitToKillAppTimeout (20000) • Battery Life. With the 7 cell battery - the largest available in this screen size - I can get 2-3 hours. Closer to 2 with the DVD drive running. The old R40 was good for 3+, and the T43 would go almost 5 hours.
The all had the available discrete graphics option, so that's no excuse for the T61's poor battery life. Rescue & Recovery • Preserve ability to boot the service partition. Lenovo ships these laptops with a hidden partition that contains rescue and recovery tools as well as a full image of the factory drive configuration.