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Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:52 am
by Mighty_Mauz
I wanted to set my new T400 back to factory defaults, by using the thinkvantage button during start up. While recovering in Rescue & Recovery the laptop turned off, because it didn't have any power anymore. The power cable was not attached properly
Now I wanted to recover it again, but I cannot start windows and R&R tries to fix windows, but it can't. Also I get the message "you must log in to access system recovery options"
Is there anything I can do to fix the laptop?
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:20 am
by Brad
Does pressing F11 during startup help?
Brad
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:18 pm
by Mighty_Mauz
Then it starts the Startup Repair and it tells me that windows cannot repair the computer automatically. And if I want to view the Advanced recovery options, it gives me the message above, that I should log in.
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 5:51 am
by andyP
Are you able to run a repair from a Vista boot cd? I would give that a go first. If you can't or it didn't help, use a floppy drive and run the
Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette which will hopefully enable you to access the service partition and start over.
If all else fails you could use the recovery disks which you hopefully made
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 5:18 pm
by Mighty_Mauz
The problem is that I want to restore the laptop to factory default, because I want to return the laptop to the store. They gave me one with CCFL backlight, and I wanted one with LED. So it wouldn't help the case if I opened up the cd packages. And also I don't have an external floppy drive.
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 10:58 am
by Mighty_Mauz
I just connected the hdd with a usb adapter to my old laptop and it still has 3 partitions:
- SERVICEV003 (691mb of 1.46 gb available)
- SW_Preload (218 of 221 gb available)
- Lenovo (1.8 of 9.76 gb available)
So I don't know if I can get it back to the original settings, but there is some hope.
It looks like there is something wrong with the boot configuration.
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 12:38 pm
by Harryc
Why would anyone care if you use the recovery CD's if the machine is in your posession. I do not understand. Just use them.
Re: Recovery failed, out of battery
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:17 pm
by Mighty_Mauz
Well, the problem was that I wanted to send the laptop back to the store and in order to do that, I should leave everything as original as possible. And to open cd covers wouldn't really help. But everything is solved: I installed Windows 7 and after that I could run recovery as it should. So I set it back to factory default settings, sent it back and got my money back!