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Has anyone recorded R & R on SD? Is it same process as cloning to thumbdrive? The small size of SD suggests it would be perfect, better than a thumbdrive. I'd like to use this on my x200.

mate... curious>any luck with your requests?

ausmike wrote:mate... curious>any luck with your requests?

no response from anyone here. I'm surprised, as if its possible, it would be a fail-safe way to travel with my laptop.

I create mine on usb and can restore by booting off usb, no more dvd disk swaps. I also make a ghost backup of it so I can store it anywhere and reuse the usb stick for other stuff

rsutoratosu wrote:I create mine on usb and can restore by booting off usb, ...... stuff

Hi there
can you give some details - as to how you did this "using the IBM/Lenovo R&R" apps
as I tried (be it long time ago) to :
a) create a Recovery Disk to USB drive ( it would let me do it - can only write to a Cd+ Dvd)
b) How do u BOOT from these recovery USB drives ( yes am vey famalier with 'normal windows' boot via USB drive...)
However - here the assumption is (there is NO OS at all!!) and how do u boot a USB via R&R ( R&R = works only via the BLUE Button on thinkpads.

I have number of "factory" images on USB drives ( cloned using Acronis ) and when needed I 'copy' them to a Dvd RW and than boot off that to do any "R&R " .........but lucky (touch wood) not needed to do this in loooooong time ( last machine was T21 ,,,,

Thanks for info in advance....keen to see
Mike

I just run the windows 7 lenovo factory "create recovery media" it wont let me now because I already created it.. if i find a spare drive ill update pics. but basically stick your usb drive in, hit the create button and it'll ask where you like to put it, the drop down has usb

Here's a thread on it
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantag ... d-p/400347

Hello rsu*;
thanks for the LINK > Much appreciated. <yip already know and HAVE USED 'dispart" etc tools for making a USB BOOTABLE 'drive' , no issue there...

But still not SURE HOW u use that 'data' once its done , as R&R always ( by default in its deisgn) will look for a BOOTABLE CD ( first step ) then once it loads (from what I seen it loads a BAISIC "DOS/Linux" os) and then looks for the DATA DISK...... and ALL of THESE 'lookups" point to CD/DVD drive.....<<< there OLDER TP = dont have USB as boot option in BIOS > so not sure how to make USB appear as CD for lots of older machines >>>>
I know I can make my USB = appear as a CD/DVD drive , however ; last time I tried to go thru and do a "RECOVERY" using the USB ........ it kept faling with " cd/dvd drive not found" error = xxxx

So yes; am still kinda UNSURE , as the actualy RECOVERY will work via USB stick > which lead me to "COPY" the data from USb stick to a DVD RW and do recovery that way ( which worked like a charm )
Side note::but then .......havent there could be something NEW in the TvT newer R&R program now that lets you boot off the USB ( which would be great! (( me I am bit skeptical as i know Lenovo = has dropped/fired all the TvT developers in Japan (as they were ex IBM developers) and thus NO MORE TvT tools now...

So anyone up to test (actually do a recovery from USB stick)?

RR makes the USB bootable, I use 1 usb stick and have a library of lenovo recovery disk on Ghost image. When a pc dies, I just restore the image I made on to the usb and do a factory recovery off the usb stick. There's no way I'm holding 30 usb drives just for lenovo images.

I have images for t60 14/15, t61 14/15 x200/x201/x220/x230 (in 1 week), t500/t510, t420, various dells, etc.

usb rr works