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Long story short I installed Windows 7 on my SL400, wanted to go back to Vista 32bit home with the R&R restore by means of the magic blue button at post. The ThinkVantage button however is now "broken" as the MBR got toasted by win7.

I now have a borrowed copy of Vista 64bit ultimate installed, and I installed R&R 4.21. I had never installed anything to my S: and Q: drives so that recovery data is still there, however S: is now showing up as D: and I can't change it back.

The Q: auto run program still prompts me to burn recovery media, however it can't find "recovburncd.exe" to burn it in my \Lenovo\factory recovery\ folder in program files on c:.

using R&R i did burn a bootable recovery CD, but within that R&R environment it can't find any source of a backup on my S:/D: drive or Q: drive.

Poking around in Q: i can see the sdrivebackup.wim and cdrivebackup.wim so I know it's there, but I just need something else to get this all rolling.

Can anyone lend a hand? Lenovo won't send me repair disks since win7 is unsupported still.

Thank you so much if you can help

Two things. First, I would recommend finding someone with a similar system who can burn a copy of the Rescue disc for you, since yours cannot be made. This should fix the MBR problem and allow you to restore normally.

Second, excellent use of the word "borked"

This has worked for me when I've needed to change drive letters that won't change in the normal manner:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

Ignore the title of the article and scroll down the the details of which registry entries need to be modified.