Thinkpads Forum

Hello Guys,
I tried creating a rescue DVD instead of CD, however there is no option to burn one. I think it does recognize the DVD and write to it, but it pops it out after writing to it. Does it mean that the rescue DVD needs to be RW instead of plain R ?

Dunno, the first of the batch is ALWAYS withing cd spec size, it's afterwards that depends whether you get 2 dvd's or those 7 cd's (not sure about figures, I have 2 dvd's ).

It should pop out after writing to it so that you can put the next empty one in..

I would not use a RW disk, as they are not so reliable. A Rescue Media disk is normally 1 CD. The Product Recovery Disc set is 1 CD + 1 DVD or ~ 7 CD's.

GomJabbar wrote:I would not use a RW disk, as they are not so reliable. A Rescue Media disk is normally 1 CD. The Product Recovery Disc set is 1 CD + 1 DVD or ~ 7 CD's.

I agree with the RW comment, however if the system has a lot of programs installed - you may need 1 CD + 1 DVD and perhaps another CD (as in my case)

Also, as somenone else here had mentioned in another thread - for some reason, +R discs work better on TPs than -R Discs.

starlights wrote:I agree with the RW comment, however if the system has a lot of programs installed - you may need 1 CD + 1 DVD and perhaps another CD (as in my case)

I am speaking strictly about the Product Recovery Discs that only restore the original factory contents. Whatever you have added since you have received your ThinkPad will not be on the Product Recovery Disc set. If this set now requires more than 1 CD + 1 DVD, then that is news to me.

Rescue and Recovery backups are a different animal and may span a number of DVD disks.

There is only the startup disks ~ disk 6 for my T60. So as for DVD, it should be startup ~ 1 DVD.