T30 restore corrupted?

[karunnt]

I tried to restore my T30 and it almost completed the XP Pro install but in the last minute froze.

I have only done this once before and that time it completed the reinstall successfully.

Now when I try to reboot I notice that the note on the boot up screen saying that to 'restore press the F11 key is missing'.

Is my restore corrupted?

What can I do?

Thanks.

[goofyGAguy]

I tried to restore my T30 and it almost completed the XP Pro install but in the last minute froze.

I have only done this once before and that time it completed the reinstall successfully.

Now when I try to reboot I notice that the note on the boot up screen saying that to 'restore press the F11 key is missing'.

Is my restore corrupted?

What can I do?

Thanks.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62978

[ryengineer]

Actually the above link mentioned will be of no help to the fix the corrupt boot sector nevertheless the following will be:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette.

[karunnt]

I downloaded both of these and double-clicked then on a Windows 2K desktop and both showed a command prompt window for just a fraction of a second and closed.

I cannot start them at all.

Also I have no 3.5" disk in my laptop so I was going to burn it on a CD and boot from the CD.

Thanks.

[ryengineer]

It works with a floppy disk drive only.

[karunnt]

Hi,

Actually the above link mentioned will be of no help to the fix the corrupt boot sector nevertheless the following will be:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette.

I used this to restore the recovery partition and reinstall the OS. Everything is working well except for:


1) The notice to 'press the F11 key to start recovery ...' on bootup is not present.
2) Volume control buttons do not work
3) The 'Thinkpad' button does not work

I think I repaired the MBR but did not restore the recovery partition.

Is there a way to restore the original configuration without recovery disks?

I suspect I will have to get a set of recovery disks. I didn't have a CDR on the laptop so I didn't make any recovery disks.

Is here a way to make recovery disk images and ftp them to a computer with a CD writer?

Thanks.

[ryengineer]

snip.....Is there a way to restore the original configuration without recovery disks? I suspect I will have to get a set of recovery disks. I didn't have a CDR on the laptop so I didn't make any recovery disks. Is here a way to make recovery disk images and ftp them to a computer with a CD writer?....snip

1. You can restore to original out of the box settings without recovery disks as long as service partition / HPA is still intact.

2. Quite possble, someone would need to create .iso of recovery disks that can easily be burned to CD on a computer with a burner. You can request them in the Marketplace of this forum.