Rescue and Recovery stopped working

[Ikusho]

Hi,

My Lenovo X60s been giving me weird connectivity issues (i.e. MSN works, AIM doesn't, Firefox 2.06 works, Firefox 2.07 doesn't, IE doesn't, etc.)

So I decided to press "ThinkVantage" the blue button at the start and try to restore to factory default through "Rescue and Recovery"

I picked "format partition only", and then I picked "custom default" but I didn't change anything. Then I clicked start. It started, but soon after, it said something along the lines of: % failed to rescue your computer.

Or something like that. I restarted my computer to try again, but now, when I click the blue button when the computer starts, instead of bringing me to Rescue and Recovery, it insteads shoots me to a screen that asks me to click Esc, F1, F11, or F12.

F11 appears to suggest that I can open Rescue and Recovery but when I click it, it instead shoots me back to Vista. I cannot get back to the Rescue and Recovery screen through the blue button anymore, and I do not know how to try to restore comptuer to factory default. Help!

[Ikusho]

No matter how I try, I cannot seem to reinstall Rescue & Recovery and it seems that my recovery partition no longer exists. I have ordered recovery CDs from Lenovo--here's my next dilemma:

I have no CD rom drive for my laptop. Would a generic USB 2.0 external cd-rom drive work with the recovery CDs?

[ryengineer]

snip........I have no CD rom drive for my laptop. Would a generic USB 2.0 external cd-rom drive work with the recovery CDs?

It should and would as long as lenovo sends you a sets of all CD's (usually comes in 7 or 8 disks) or otherwise you would need a DVD-ROM.

You would need to go to the BIOS to change the boot order to make the USB CD/DVD as the 1st choice to boot from the disks.