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R50, no option for creating resue disks

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R50, no option for creating resue disks

#1 Post by onespeedbiker » Fri Jul 19, 2019 10:34 am

I have recently acquired an R50 and was able to acquire a recovery disk set. After restoring the hdd, I installed RnR I downloaded from the driver portion of this site; I checked and indeed there is healthy a rescue partition. The RnR utility also creates a Create Recovery Media utility. In the past I have used this to create a product recovery disk set on a different Thinkpad. In this case, when I opened the Create Recovery Media utility, there was no option to create the recovery discs, nor any message that the a set had already been created. Perhaps this is a result of using a product recovery disc set to restore the hdd, so it would appear there would be no need to create another set. Has anyone else dealt with this?

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Re: R50, no option for creating resue disks

#2 Post by w0qj » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:00 am

If you can somehow get past the legalities of copyright, then perhaps you can then directly copy set of the Rescue Disk DVD disks.

(From our T42 experience, it does look like that your copy of Product Recovery DVD set was burnt from a previous R50,
hence your restored R50 cannot burn another Product Recovery DVD set).
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