the product recovery program is preinstalled on the hard disk that comes with your ibm computer.the product recovery program is designed to be hidden from view to protect it from accidental damage.

    if you are using fdisk,nt disk administrator,or another utility to reformat the hard disk drive,you might see the partition where the product recovery program is stored. do not delete this partition or the product recovery program will be lost.

    if your hard disk drive,including the partition where the product recovery program resides,becomes damaged or you replace the hard disk drive,see "ordering replacing product recovery program cds" on page 81.