T30 recovery disks advice please

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traveller · #1 Post by **traveller** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:38 pm

Hi all,I wonder if anyone can advise me please ?.
I have 3 recovery disks that came with the T30 when i bought it and am not sure how to use them ?......I put the #1 disk in the cd after completely formatting my drive and it said it was loading IBM option and after that went on to load windows XP......It never asked for disk 2 or 3 and wonder what they are for ?.....what I was attempting to do was just reload the IBM options as I found them quite helpful...XP went on fine but I cannot seem to find the IBM options.....
instructions for using these disks would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Kind regards to all
Clive

truk · #2 Post by **truk** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:55 pm

Although I always found some of them to be a pain, and I usually download just the ones I want off IBMs site, installing them should be a matter of sticking them in the drive and going through the autorun menu that pops up.

andyP · #3 Post by **andyP** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:56 pm

You may have made a mistake by re-formatting your drive; recovery cds love blanko hdds. Should you need to back up files, DO IT*. Download and create a bootable cd from Secure Data Disposal. Set in bios that the first boot device is cd/dvd and run SDD at it's lowest level, writing logs to disc is unecessary. Then you can run your recovery cds. They will then re-create the hidden patition and install your TP to factory settings.
*SDD deletes enough of the hdd that recovery cds think it is factory new, a layman has no chance of recovering data.

traveller · #4 Post by **traveller** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:26 pm

Hi,
many thanks guys for the prompt reply and the info which is much appreciated.....yes all I have done is format the drive and installed xp and nothing else so I suppose to follow your suggestions then I might be better to try and run these disks over the top of this install of mine ?......or format and start again following your info ?.

kind regards
Clive

Msmax · #5 Post by **Msmax** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:13 pm

Just use FDISK to delete any partition found on the harddisk.
Do not create any partition and do not format.

Start with the first disk...

Msmax

RRHODY · #6 Post by **RRHODY** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:24 pm

Wondering - Would Hitachi DFT LOW-LEVEL format be a good first step before the recovery CD's?

Msmax · #7 Post by **Msmax** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:38 pm

Guess that would do the trick too, but it takes ages to complete...

Msmax

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