X61s - Rescue & Restore - There is no Factory Restore option

I have an X61s with Vista Home Basic, and I want to use ThinkVantage to do a Factory System Restore.
I can boot into the Rescue & Restore utility (via the ThinkVantage button or F11), this is just fine.
The problem is : There is no "Factory Restore" option. I'm only given the option to restore from backup.
Any ideas? The fact that I can access the R&R utility but not get that "Factory Restore" option.
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kamszelei, welcome to the forum,
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which version of Think Vantage System Upate do you have installed?
If you have version 3.13.0009 installed please try the following; boot into Windows and run TVSU. It'll update itself, restart, then update itself again. Hopefully the option to recover to factory content will then be available to you.
Please also check the following registry key; HKLM\Software\Lenovo\TVT Common
If the "System Type" key is 1, change it to 0. If it is already set to 0 don't change anything and let us know.
Hope this helps
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