Restoring to Factory Settings | T510 4313 Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit

Hi,
I purchased a lenovo thinkpad T510 that came with only C:\ drive (having Operating System in it) and another small drive 'Lenovo Recovery'. Later, I partitioned the C:\ drive to C:\, D:\ and E:\ to organise my data in a better way.
Now, I want to do a clean (coz, some sort of www.results.gooogle-analytics.$#@%$#%@#$%.com is irritating me - guess this is a spyware and I want to get rid of it) build of the machine and revert it back to factory settings. However, when I ran Lenovo Rescue and Recovery (after taking backup of my data on those drives), I imagined the harddrive going to be merged back to original single OS drive. But, I see there are D:\ and E:\ drives are intact with data and only C: drive has been reloaded with OS. Is this a default behaviour? When it says it will restore back to factory settings, should it not wipe out the partitions as well?
Regards,
Kalyan

kalyanmudi wrote:
Hi,
Is this a default behaviour? When it says it will restore back to factory settings, should it not wipe out the partitions as well?
Regards,
Kalyan
Hi and welcome to the forum!
This is normal behavior, I have tried it on my SL400. Only Recovery discs will wipe out everything and put all your partitions to factory settings.
Hope this helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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