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recovery media by thinkvantage

#1 Post by ruhat » Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:57 am

what is differences of creating media by thinkvantage. i created recovery media by lenovo(q) driver, but one of them was damaged.http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=80714
so i want to create a new one but i don't know it is possible by thinkvantage or not
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Re: recovery media by thinkvantage

#2 Post by richk » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:19 pm

Here is something I have done with other models. (I have never done it on T400 or T500.) First get a good image copy of your hard drive. In my case, I have extra drives, so I can clone the drive and test that it works. If you cloned your drive to a second disk, use the copy. I then restore from the recovery partition. At that point, you can again make factory-contents recovery media. I then go back to my original drive.

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Re: recovery media by thinkvantage

#3 Post by andyP » Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:28 pm

richk's solution will work if you don't want to restore your main drive. Another option would be to call Lenovo support, explain the problem and ask for a set of discs. Before you do this see my reply to your other post.
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Re: recovery media by thinkvantage

#4 Post by Ziad » Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:01 pm

you can use other program ( as Norton Ghost ) to make a full backup of current system and you can restor it later.
I did this myself.
Anybody knows the use of HHD SERVICEV003 (S) ?
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Re: recovery media by thinkvantage

#5 Post by ruhat » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:16 am

Hi again
i am sorry to answer late but i had not any oppurtinity
andyP wrote:richk's solution will work if you don't want to restore your main drive. Another option would be to call Lenovo support, explain the problem and ask for a set of discs. Before you do this see my reply to your other post.
i check your other post
andyP wrote:After booting from the start up disc, are you selecting to restore to an image or to factory settings? If yoHi again
u are selecting factory settings, what happens if you click on no?
i tried this
i booted from the start up disc. after a time it asked for disc 1( it says like if you have a system disc recovery disc 1 insert it) and i inserted it. but it doesn't accept and said : this is not correct disc. please remove the correct disc and press ok. a tried it several times with disc 1 and with disc2, start up disc. but it doesn't accept any one.

so what can i do for this problem?

and the other
Ziad wrote:you can use other program ( as Norton Ghost ) to make a full backup of current system and you can restor it later.
I did this myself.

Good luck
i installed norton ghost 14 and made a full back up of current system in D driver. so i think as far as i can understan i can restore my windows with this files (sv2i files) but if my windows doesn't open what will i do? couldn't i make cd's from this files to bootfrom it and recover windows.
thank
i am waiting for your replies
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Re: recovery media by thinkvantage

#6 Post by Ziad » Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:46 pm

When you have a backup using Norton Ghost make on CDs and you will be able to restor the system using these CDs.
Good luck

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