Rescue and Recovery under Vista - T43p

[whitebrow]

I'm wanting to put Vista on my T43p to play with for a while, then use IBM Rescue and Recovery to go back to the factory settings. My questions are whether formatting the drive will remove the image I restore with, and if Rescue and Recovery 2.04.0182 will work in Vista? If it doesn't, I have an XP cd I can reinstall with, download R&R, then restore.

I'm really worried about losing the backup, though, because it has all the software and settings I get through my college. I don't want to spend 8 hours in the car plus the time to reimage my machine to get it back for the summer. I'd burn the recovery CD/DVD's but I don't have any media to use right now.

So, has anyone tried R&R from Vista, and is it really impossible to lose my hidden image if I reformat when I install Vista or XP?

Thanks.

[Zeitgeist]

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

[whitebrow]

Thanks - I had done a search and for some reason neither that thread nor the one it links to showed up.

So I suppose the only truly safe things are A) Create all the rescue CD/DVD's or B) Don't do this.

[GomJabbar]

So I suppose the only truly safe things are A) Create all the rescue CD/DVD's or B) Don't do this.

Yes. Or C) put it on another hard drive.

[whitebrow]

Yes. Or C) put it on another hard drive.

I actually tried that with my usb drive, and it gave me errors each time. I'll try that again.

[whitebrow]

Alright, this time it copied over without a hitch. Two backups is good enough for me, so I'll be going to Vista tonight I think.

Thanks a bunch.