Lenovo T400 virus recovery and R&R

 Pls. i want to restore the EISA partition on my hard disk so that R&R predesktop environment can be fully functional. This is exactly what i need. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Anu Adewuyi

"changed the format to EISA configuration"
Do you mean you've changed the parittion ID?  IIRC 12 (hex) is typically used for that partition.  You could spin up a Linux live CD and change it.  Might work...
That might not help.  Once the MBR has been touched (by using an install CD to run repair, or installing Linux, for instance) the ability to boot the service partition is usually lost.
BTW, I've never had that MBR repair tool work either.  It has always done what you describe - made the machine unbootable.
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