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Gabox · #1 Post by **Gabox** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:20 pm

Hi!

I'have just tried ubuntu on my z60m, and now i want back the factory state for a fresh winxp. Hovever, when i press the thinkvantage button, rescue and recovery won't load anymore, instead, i get a panel with three choices (boot hard disk, cd...)

Please help me, how could i get it back?

#2 Post by **ryengineer** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:23 pm

I believe you have installed the linux bootloader on MBR.

You can repair it via:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

#3 Post by **carbon_unit** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:16 pm

Like it says all over this forum. The first thing you do is make the restore disks.

That way when you play with the partitions or the MBR you can always get back to factory state.
Hopefully you will be able to fix the MBR and get to the restore partition. Actually my Ubuntu install made an entry for the restore partition in GRUB. There were two entries pointing to windows, one booted windows, the other booted into rescue and restore.

Gabox · #4 Post by **Gabox** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:24 pm

ryengineer wrote:I believe you have installed the linux bootloader on MBR.

You can repair it via:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

I don't have any flopp drive

Gabox · #5 Post by **Gabox** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:26 pm

carbon_unit wrote:Like it says all over this forum. The first thing you do is make the restore disks.
That way when you play with the partitions or the MBR you can always get back to factory state.
Hopefully you will be able to fix the MBR and get to the restore partition. Actually my Ubuntu install made an entry for the restore partition in GRUB. There were two entries pointing to windows, one booted windows, the other booted into rescue and restore.

Yes, i can select that boot entry, but when it starts loading, it crashes with error code 22 or something like that.

#6 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:24 am

There used to be a cd image but it got removed for some reason. Maybe you can borrow a USB floppy from someone?

Gabox · #7 Post by **Gabox** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:36 am

carbon_unit wrote:There used to be a cd image but it got removed for some reason. Maybe you can borrow a USB floppy from someone?

Too late, i think i have already lost my hidden partition. I'll get the disks from lenovo.

Gabox · #8 Post by **Gabox** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:45 am

anyway, are there any tool, that could show me that it is still there?

#9 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:04 pm

Try "testdisk". There is a thread on here about partition recovery.
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... &highlight

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