T41 Recovery = massive Fail

[jamerslong]

so I just got my recovery Discs, I stuck em in the drive and ran the recovery. once it was done I booted into windows to be welcomed it forced me to activate before I could logonm the lan driveres werent installed so guess what phone style here I come.

so i got it activated (yay)

it took along time to get it all to to do the post boot install. I woke up in the morning to windows repeatedly doing the scandisc and when I tried to boot into windows I got Mr BSOD.

and it also failed to ask for Disc 5 at the end of the recovery install

anyon have this problem?

[RealBlackStuff]

Disc 5 is an additional CD, not really part of the Recovery/Restore set.
It's a security update for Access Support.
See the README.TXT file on that CD.

[jamerslong]

the 2nd shot seems to be working it booted and installed the extras and it's rebooting again.

so whats on disc 5?

[jdhurst]

When you run recovery CD's you should generally FDISK and remove all partitions, then FDISK /mbr to fix the Master Boot Record. Then do the recovery. Done without doing FDISK will result in an incomplete recovery and a request for activation (as I know from experience and calls to IBM). Done the second way results in a correct recovery and no request for activation. .... JDH

[RealBlackStuff]

README_ENGLISH.TXT:

A security issue has been identified with the Access Support application. Installing this update will protect your computer by correcting the identified issue; we recommend that you install it immediately.



To install the update:

1. Open My Computer

2. Select the CD or DVD drive

3. Double-click on the AccessSupportFP1.exe icon

4. Follow the instructions to complete the install

[jamerslong]

Oh Nevermind lol I was looking on the wrong disc

wow.... im a tard

on the good side it installed correctly this time