T41 Factory Partition and other Access IBM recovery
Hi,
I am using T41 2373 , 1 year back I reformatted C-drive and installed the windows Xp from CD from scratch, Now the Access IBM button does not work. I think i merged the factory partition as well .
Is there still a possiblity of recovering the factory partition , where we dont need CD for fresh installation and for drivers.
thanks
Haydder
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