Thinkpads Forum

Hi, ive got a couple of X60S laptops in a recent deal.

One I was able to rebuild to factory defaults by pressing the blue Thinkvantage button at startup and going through the restore process.

The other X60S' Thinkvantage button took it to the BIOS setup and boot device options - and no recovery option.

I have used Image for Windows to make an image of the complete working X60S drive in order to restore to the non-working X60S. However, when I do the restore, it still does not boot.

Where am I going wrong?

If I understand your post correctly, you were able to image the X60 #1 back to factory by using the thinkvantage button, however x60#2 fail when you try the same procedure.

You could try the MBR fix available on the Lenovo web site, if that does not get you into the recovery partition you might just try cloning the image on X60#1 onto the HD of X60#2, download a trial version of True Image and install it on X60#1, take the HD out of X60#2 and put it in a USB enclousre, clone the image and replace the drive you will get an exact copy on both machines, recovery partition and all.

Check out this thread that myself and another forum member created http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27721



HTH.

Oh yeah, I just thought of something else, if you have a dock you may be able to create yourself a set of recovery CD/s from X60#1 and use them to re-image #2.