[Restore problems] Rescue and Recovery - Windows XP

[Hibakusha]

Greetings to the thinkpads.com support community !!

I am really happy I found this website, it helped me to resolve some problems I had. I tried to find a solution for another problem, but I did not succeed. I will start from the beginning.

My father bought a thinkpad T60 8744 HDG widescreen. Factory's preloaded OS is windows vista, and he wants windows XP Pro SP2.
No problem, I started to work on it. I installed windows XP Pro SP2, installed every drivers and it was working.

Then, I decided to make a backup of the system with rescue and recovery. After that I used the Lenovo's Vista recovery discs (I wanted to try/check/watch how it worked), and then, try to restore the windows XP system. After the restoration, there was a boot failure because the system could not find a hal.dll. I resolved that (thanks this forum) with a bootcfg /rebuild.

And here the problems starts:

• After the reboot, I noticed that the wireless system was not working at all. The wireless/bluetooth leds were not turned on, and there was no wireless active icon in the taskbar, it just disapeared. Only the ethernet adapter was working.
• I checked the device manager to see if I had to reinstall them: I could not find them. Under the network adapter, there is only the ethernet adapter and nothing else. If I use the "scan for hardware change", I do not find anything. Before that, I had not the thinkvantage access software. After this problem, I installed it, just to see if it could help me, but nothing.
• I noticed a last problem: absolutly everything in my restored windows XP SP2 was read-only. I disabled the simple file sharing and verified in the security properties of C:\ if the administrator had full rights.
• I noticed that there was another user: system creator. I wonder if I have to supress it.

So here are my questions:
- what can I do to not have that boot error when restore the windows XP system?
- what can I do to not have that read-only issue over C:\ ?
- what I can do to detect/reinstall the wireless adapter ? The hardware's scan can not find it.

Thanks for any help I can have here.[/list]

[GomJabbar]

Just some ideas here...

After reinstalling Vista, did you reformat the hard drive before using the XP backup that you made? It seems to me some Vista leftovers could be causing a problem. If possible, reformat the hard drive so that all existing data on the C: partition is erased, then try restoring your Rescue and Recovery backup. Ideally you have a bootable backup or you made a Rescue Media CD that you can boot from, when you had XP installed. If this is not the case, you could install Rescue and Recovery after the fresh install of XP, then make a Rescue Media CD before restoring from your backup. The idea is to boot into Rescue and Recovery from your Rescue Media CD (of the same version of RnR as your backup), then restore your backup from there.

[Hibakusha]

Ok, what happened now, my father asked the seller to prepare him a new T60 with windows XP Pro as new operating system in the hidden partition, so I do not need to worry about that anymore.


About the backup, it was a bootable CD, it worked anyway. But I did not reformatted the disk, I will keep that in mind the next time I have to do something like that.

I in 2 days, I have spent around 20-22 hours for that computer and slept 3 hours, but I learned a lot .