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O.k. try again

I was reloading a recovery disk ... it cannot see USB hardrive or DVD why?

and does not offer possibility of loading from preloaded recoery partition.

any suggestions will be welcome...

I had to reinstall my system also. I had two options, the ThinkVantage key or F11 after start up. Both gave me the option to do a complete system reinstall from the hidden partition and it worked well.

Once you have reinstalled your system, the drivers should load that recognize your other devices.

Hope this helps... of course, it won't, if your hard disk is defective...

Try going into your BIOS and setting the SATA in Compatibility mode.

the problem Cassirer had was he fell for the box that pops up asking for the "supplemental disc" not knowing, like i, when i did a recovery, that you must cancel past this box and THEN load the next disc.. in this case it was a DVD with the entire recovery on it..
(a set i made for him and sent to him)
last i heard, he was successful..

O.k. all is well ... it took till the very early morning but victory was achieved ... as was said the extra disk was the problem ... but once I ignored that, insisted it just content itself with the DVD ... off it went and reload like a charm ... but here is something strange... it is almost 2 G ligher than before... which is find by me ....

I will make a image of the drive .... and one day when I am rested I would like to remove the recoery partition ... in case anyone knows ... can I just make an image with TrueImage and then reload it to take back the lost space?

thanks to everyone for the help ...

Steve

What's the advantage to having the recovery partition? I can boot from the bootable recovery cd and accomplish the same thing, right?

Is it just that the capability is right there on the hard drive at all times? Or does the recovery partition serve other purposes also?

Thanks.

When you restore from the CD's its creates the service partition on the HD every time IIRC. Its recovering from the CD's that is redundant, unless you take the time to delete the restore partition after installation and win your 2-5GB back.

I may be wrong.

donking! wrote:What's the advantage to having the recovery partition? I can boot from the bootable recovery cd and accomplish the same thing, right?

Is it just that the capability is right there on the hard drive at all times? Or does the recovery partition serve other purposes also?

Thanks.

I'm trying to learn French and spending a month in France every 6 months. On one of these recent trips the ethernet and wifi card drivers in my X32 became corrupted. As a result I could not access the internet, at all, either from a wired connection or wireless. In retrospect this probably happened as a result of downloading and installing update files from Lenovo a little earlier in the trip (something I will never do again away from home except under the most dire circumstances).

I hit the blue button and booted into the recovery space. In this space there is a rudimentary browser, and I was able to connect through a wired connection. I then went to the Lenovo website and downloaded all the communications drivers for my machine.

Then, I rebooted into windows, uninstalled the old drivers and then installed then new ones. Voila! Working system!

Other than carrying a freestanding optical drive or hard drive with me, with image files, I don't know how I could have resolved this situation without access to the service partition. Perhaps I could also have done this with WinXP system restore, but I don't know if I even had that activated at that time.

If I was always going to be close to my home or office and never would need this capability, however, then I think the service partition would not be needed.