Fixing the blue ThinkVantage button.

[rarirurero]

I overwrote the MBR, bootsector, and BCD because Solaris completely screwed up my Vista installation (took me a day to fix it) and so the blue ThinkVantage button no longer boots into the Recovery center.

Is there a way to fix this?
(BTW, the 6GB recovery partition and the SWTOOLS and SWSHARE folder are still present)

Thanks

[hypertrophy]

Have you tried this:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-54483

[TPA]

Re-install thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery.

[rarirurero]

Thanks for the links and advice.
But before I resort to that, I discovered that C:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\BMGR contains an application called BMGR32.

Executing

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"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\BMGR\bmgr32" /info

from the command line prints out:

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 #  active  type      start CHS      end CHS      startLBA       size
 0   0x00   0x27     32  33   0   224 222  66         2048     13410304
 1   0x80   0x07     14 223 119   239 255 255     13412352    181956608
 2   0x00   0x00      0   0   0     0   0   0            0            0
 3   0x00   0x00      0   0   0     0   0   0            0            0

Can bgmr32.exe fix my problem?

[PPB]

I had the same problem and I was a bit scared that I'd somehow ruined the hidden partition. Before this I uninstalled Rescue & Recovery so I thought it could be the cause and re-installed it. It did help. So I think you can give it a try.

PPB