Recovery cd's........how many ?

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dd · #1 Post by dd » Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:22 am

How many recovery cd's ?

ian · #2 Post by **ian** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:41 am

It varies with each series - what's your Thinkpad?

dd · #3 Post by dd » Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:17 am

Hi Ian

T41p.........

Thanks

rgrosz · #4 Post by **rgrosz** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:14 am

There are 5 recovery CDs.

ian · #5 Post by **ian** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:21 am

Indeed - and as this is an open-ended sort of post, there are 8 for the T42

dd · #6 Post by dd » Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:30 am

a BIG thankyou !

rhema83 · #7 Post by **rhema83** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:27 pm

ian wrote:Indeed - and as this is an open-ended sort of post, there are 8 for the T42

To add to that, it's one Rescue and Recovery bootable CD plus 7 system backup CDs.

Oxleyrd · #8 Post by **Oxleyrd** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:46 am

I think T42 has only 7 CDs altogether.

1 "Recscue and Recovery with Repid Restore" bootable CD + 6 "Product Recovery Disk".

Did I miss any CD? I just follow the instructions to burn the CDs myself, so, should be correct...

ian · #9 Post by **ian** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:03 am

Well I'm only going by what I received from IBM - 1 Rescue etc. and 7 cd's marked respectively 1 of 7 thru 7 of 7...

JohnV · #10 Post by **JohnV** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:37 am

I have the same set as Ian for my T42. There are 8 disks total.

John

Zeitgeist · #11 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:45 am

Oxleyrd wrote:I think T42 has only 7 CDs altogether.

1 "Recscue and Recovery with Repid Restore" bootable CD + 6 "Product Recovery Disk".

So how can you recover the system when you have only one CD drive? If you remove the RRwRR bootable CD how can you tell the PC to take the data from CD 1/7 to 7/7?

I produced with RRwRR a bootable CD and a DVD for my T23 and A31P and I wonder how I could recover the system with only one drive.

ian · #12 Post by **ian** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:05 am

When I tested the Restore, I loaded the firt R+R disk, which it read, then the laptop itself asked for each of the 7 recovery disks as it needed them - all on one CD drive - ain't technology wonderful...

Zeitgeist · #13 Post by **Zeitgeist** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:18 am

Thanks for the quick reply!

Oxleyrd · #14 Post by **Oxleyrd** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:29 am

oops...

I was not getting CD from IBM directly...

Did anybody else burn the recovery CD yourself for T42? How many CDs altogher you have at the end?

I am worrying about it, as I plan to remove the Service Partition soon.

kano · #15 Post by **kano** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:37 am

Oxleyrd wrote:oops...

I was not getting CD from IBM directly...

Did anybody else burn the recovery CD yourself for T42? How many CDs altogher you have at the end?

I am worrying about it, as I plan to remove the Service Partition soon.

Yes, I burned for T42p. There are one bootable CD-R and one DVD-R.
Regards, KaNo

awolfe63 · #16 Post by **awolfe63** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:26 pm

I burned them for the T42 - 1+6

Leon · #17 Post by **Leon** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:32 pm

wonder why if u burn them there's one less.......?

ian · #18 Post by **ian** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:21 pm

1: Take the CD burner out of the laptop - carefully
2: Hold it above a large piece of clean white paper (A3 - narrow side facing North-East)
3: Shake the CD burner (as detailed in IBM document TIALON89P)
4: With a small pair of tweezers pick up the bits that have fallen from the CD burner and glue them onto a previously prepared virgin CD

THERE'S your missing CD...

Leon · #19 Post by **Leon** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:38 pm

too much coffee, Ian?

..... although it IS funny!!!

ian · #20 Post by **ian** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:46 pm

...not enough

Oxleyrd · #21 Post by **Oxleyrd** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:24 pm

See this, http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 20CDs#2746. It is 7 CDs as Conmee mentioned.

ian · #22 Post by **ian** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:03 am

I wonder why IBM sent me 8 ? Could it be I've got an extra one free? But which one? Today is going to be so much fun...

edelrc · #23 Post by **edelrc** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:40 am

Ian, The CDs that IBM send are two sets:
-7 in a group (Product Recovery CD)
-1 out of 1 (IBM Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore).

Haven't test them, but that separation looks like a good thing to me... it give us choices!

ian · #24 Post by **ian** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:05 am

I know that - I just got a little fed up with people who had not received the IBM disks telling me that the number was different.

Oxleyrd · #25 Post by **Oxleyrd** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:10 am

ian wrote:I know that - I just got a little fed up with people who had not received the IBM disks telling me that the number was different.

Me too, why is 1+7CDs, should be 1+6 for self-burnt ones? .

Oxleyrd · #26 Post by **Oxleyrd** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:15 am

Did anybody use the 1+6 self-created recovery CDs to do the restore/recovery your T42?

Did you encounter any problems? (so, at least, you can tell us if 1+6 is enough to do the restore/recovery).

Thanks

Beni · #27 Post by **Beni** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:13 pm

I've started burning my recovery cds before reading this thread.

It was a bad idea, because I only had 5 blank cds and when it asked for the 6th one, I had to abort it.

I guess my 5 cds are now wasted because I have to start all over again with a new set of (hopefully enough

) cds ?

ian · #28 Post by **ian** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:04 pm

Right I've had enough of all this - let's start THINKING guys - if we burn only 7 CDs when 8 are provided by IBM isn't there just a tiny weeny chance that the 1 of 1 disc contains the gubbins that uses the info on the other 7 to actually do the restore?

Ok, it's only a theory from an UNO owner, but even so...

Leon · #29 Post by **Leon** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:08 pm

possibly, but if thats the case, then where do you get the gubbins if you burned the disks urself, have a disk crash, and only have 7 disks with no gubbins?

awolfe63 · #30 Post by **awolfe63** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:08 pm

Um - that's why we keep calling it 1+6 or 1+7 - there is already a master disk identified in the set.

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