Recovering Or Installing Device Drivers - Lenovo ThinkCentre 41X1308 Guide De Référence Rapide

1. Shut down the operating system and turn off the computer.
2. Insert the Recovery Repair diskette into diskette drive A.
3. Turn on the computer and follow the instructions on the screen.
If the repair operation finishes without error, you will be able to access the
Rescue and Recovery workspace by repeatedly pressing and releasing the
Enter or F11 key while you restart your computer.
If an error message appears during the repair operation and the repair
operation cannot be completed, you might have a problem with the partition
that contains the Rescue and Recovery workspace. Use your rescue media to
access the Rescue and Recovery workspace. For information about creating and
using rescue media, see "Creating and using rescue media" on page 16.

Recovering or installing device drivers

Before you can recover or install device drivers, your operating system must be
installed on your computer. Make sure that you have the documentation and
software media for the device.
Device drivers for factory-installed devices are located on the computer hard
disk (usually drive C) in the ibmtools\drivers folder. Other device drivers are
on the software media that come with individual devices.
The latest device drivers for factory-installed devices are also available on the
World Wide Web at http://www.lenovo.com/support/.
To recover a device driver for an factory-installed device, do the following:
1. Start your computer and operating system.
2. Use Windows Explorer or My Computer to display the directory structure
of your hard disk.
3. Open the C:\IBMTOOLS folder.
4. Open the drivers folder. Within the drivers folder are several subfolders
that are named for various devices that are installed in your computer (for
example, audio, video, and so on).
5. Open the appropriate subfolder.
6. Use one of the following methods to recover the device driver:
v In the device subfolder, look for a readme.txt file or other file with the
.txt extension that contains information about reinstalling the device
driver. This file might be named after the operating system, such as
winxp.txt. The text file has information on how to reinstall the device
driver.
v If the device subfolder contains a file with an .inf extension, you can use
the Add New Hardware program (located in the Windows Control
Chapter 3. Recovering software
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