New HDD .. restore disks keep restarting???

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rufunky · #1 Post by **rufunky** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:17 am

I just replaced the HDD on a T42. After installing all the disks (in this order 1 of 1 then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) It brings me back to the "Welcome to PC Recovery" screen to start it all over again. What am I missing here???

#2 Post by **richk** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:38 am

I'm not quite sure where you are in the process. Normally, it reads all the disks to build the restore partition, then restarts R & R to copy from restore partition. Did you completely clear the drive before you started? If the new drive is being reused from another machine, what model?

rufunky · #3 Post by **rufunky** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:49 am

I inserted all the disks 1 of 1 the 1-7 a total of 8 disks then it says to reboot and brings me back to the "IBM rescue and recovery with rapid restore " screen again. The same screen I got when I inserted the 1st disk. (I have removed any disks from the laptop)

The drive was cleared . I actually went through this process a second time just to make sure. Still ending up with the same results.

#4 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:52 am

Ok, now choose to restore to factory image from the R&R menu.

rufunky · #5 Post by **rufunky** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:58 am

Harryc wrote:Ok, now choose to restore to factory image from the R&R menu.

The only options listed are

rescue files
restore from backup
restore factory contents

#6 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:59 am

Choose restore factory contents

rufunky · #7 Post by **rufunky** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:09 am

Ok, after choosing "restore factory contents" I get a message box all data and partitions will be deleted etc. and I click yes. a map network drive message box comes up. If I cancel out of that the "restore files and folders" window comes up giving me the option to:

1.choose a location from which to copy
entire hard drive contents
backed up files only
non backed up files only

I chose entire hard drive contents and my C:/ drive as the destination but when I hit copy it says "you do not have enough free space to perform this action. I believe this would be because it already installed the files from the CD.

Confused

#8 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:15 am

How large is your drive, and what's on it? Remaining capacity? The R&R partition is maybe 5GB. So if you are out of space that is suspicious if you have a large drive. If it's a 10GB drive then you've got problems ... How did you initialize the new drive, same question as RichK.

rufunky · #9 Post by **rufunky** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:20 am

It is a 60gb HDD. The reason it was giving me the error is because it had already copied the files.

I canceled out of that window and another window popped up asking me to agree to blah blah blah. So I hit yes and now it says "recovering your system, this may take several minutes..."

I think this may be where I need to be. Why i had to skip through all the other stuf is beyond me but I will let you know the results as soon as this finishes.

rufunky · #10 Post by **rufunky** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:51 am

I guess that was it .. I just had to skip over some of the restore options to get to the installation of the new files. I think IBM could make things a little less complicated.

anyway, thanks for the help guys

New HDD .. restore disks keep restarting???

New HDD .. restore disks keep restarting???

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