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I'm attempting to reinstall my Rescue & Recovery, and I'm getting an error, and no disk space available. How can that be? Is that the disk space saved for backups? If so, how can I clean that up?

Can anyone tell me how to access the hidden partition area? Is it possible to "clean out" whatever is there, and reinstall R&R?

Ok, I found out how to view the drive. It's 95% full! Is there anything I can delete from this partition? It should only have the R&R and backup on there.

No one knows anything about this??

The first thing I did when I got my T30 years ago was to remove the hidden partition. I went into the BIOS and disabled the HPA and then re-installed my system. During the initial setup I was able to delete all the partitions including the hidden partition.
Personally I fail to see the use of it. Apart from perhaps when you sell the machine on, what is the point of a "factory restore" ? If my system goes west I want it back how it was four hours or four days ago, NOT four years go
Therefore, a proper backup regime with appropriate software is essential.

Regarding RnR backup space, there is no reserved area. All the backups are placed in the RRBackups folder. As long as your system partition is large enough, you can install RnR there and still use all it's facilities (eg. F11 for the pre-desktop area boot). This is what I've done.

Ok. I spoke with IBM twice today. No one can seem to answer or help me. I'm getting Error 25025, not enough disk space in the predesktop area. How do I get this resolved? I really do not want to start over from a clean slate. My issues are with the hidden partion being full only.

You could always go get Partition Magic and resize the partition so it has more room. I have never messed with the predesktop area on a T30.......In fact I have never messed with a T30 at all.

Well, I have a T43. I have partition magic, and I'm thinking of doing the resize. I just want this to go back to the way I got it, well the predesktop area anyway.

Check out these two threads with users that have the same problem.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=25206

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=37192

I don't really think I'm this advanced to actually follow most of that.

How can I back up my Outlook email, files, etc? I'll just format windows.

There are a few different ways of doing a backup.

For complete system backups, I personally like StompSoft Backup MyPC (commercial software). You can use Windows backup or Rescue and Recovery (or Rapid Restore Ultra) backup as well. Then there is the option to clone your hard drive to another hard drive.

You can copy individual files and folders to a USB key, CD/R or DVD +-R.

Personally I recommend doing a full system backup to external hard drive, DVD's or CD's. If you find you need a file later, you can always retrieve it from your backup. If you do a full system backup, try and retrieve an individual file and make sure you can do that before you reformat Windows.

I'd like to just backup my Outlook 07 files, emails, etc. Is it possible to just transfer the email files to disk? what are they called? and where are they usually located?

I don't use Outlook, so I will leave it to others to answer your question.

Location of Outlook files can be found by going into Outlook,
then Tools -> Options, then take Mail Setup tab. Then click Data files and it will show where they're stored. (Outlook files have a .PST extension).

Outlook Express is a similar trick but the data location is called the Mail Store. (OE files have a .DBX extension).

ok, i found the archive and outlook files. does this also contain the calander, and contacts? If not, where are those located? I'm really just trying to save this info, and not really worried about programs, etc.

Yes they contain everything you have in your outlook program.

Just copy them some where safe after you reinstall your Outlook just import them.

Another way would be when your "Personal Folders" is open go to File>Import and export click on that. Once it opens select "Export to a file" next select "Personal Folder File (.pst) next select all the folders next save them to a place that you want.

Once you reinstalled your Outlook just use the Import and Export but this time use the import instead of export. This should take you home free.

Sepehr

thank you!