Problems with T42 and recovery cd's

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Toine · #1 Post by **Toine** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:23 am

Hi,

I used recovery cd's on my T42. But when all is finised, and I changed the BIOS setting with F9 and F10, the computer restarts but returns in R&R mode instead of turing on with XP.

Please help, it's a horrible thing that I cannot use my T42.

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:55 am

If you run recovery CD's, there are two steps:
1. Build the Hidden Protected Area with the CD's
2. Run the recovery.
Try running recovery now from within the Pre Desktop Area.
... JD Hurst

Toine · #3 Post by **Toine** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:13 am

I use the first cd than put the other 7 in, and that I go to Bios and than in startup F9 and F10. But nothing.

#4 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:28 pm

You are supposed to change the bios to boot from cd first, then restore from the cd's and leave it alone until windows is installed and done. It is then ready to use.
Then change the boot order to what you want and remove the last cd.
It sounds like you interrupted the process.

#5 Post by **Kyocera** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:35 pm

It does sound like the process got interrupted. Have you tried booting and then hitting f11? If this gets you to the recovery area just find "restore my system" and go from there.

If you are having this much trouble try starting over and monitor the entire process.

What's the f9 and f10 bios setting, i've never had to do that.

Toine · #6 Post by **Toine** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:01 am

yeah I know.

Well, I started the T42, put the 1 of 1 cd in.
Got to recovery part on the R&R.
Put the 1 to 7 cds in.
restarted, removed CD
Pressed the F1 button
Got to startup
Did the F9 to reset everything to normal order
Than F10 to safe the settings.
Turned the computer on,
BUT it started in the R&R part agian, it drives me crasy.

#7 Post by **carbon_unit** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:22 am

Try again but after you put in disc 7 leave the house for 2 hours and let it do it's recovery without being interrupted. It will reboot several times before it is done. It will take care of itself.

#8 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:40 am

You can run the recovery without messing with the bios settings, in fact it sounds like you might want to leave that part out. If you're desktop area is set to secure leave it.

Maybe your disks are messed up?

Toine · #9 Post by **Toine** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:26 am

carbon_unit wrote:Try again but after you put in disc 7 leave the house for 2 hours and let it do it's recovery without being interrupted. It will reboot several times before it is done. It will take care of itself.

After cd 7 it askes restart computer yes/no.
I say yes, and than it starts in the R&R part again.

#10 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:52 am

From the R&R find restore to factory, click go and it should start the process.

Toine · #11 Post by **Toine** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:30 am

Kyocera wrote:From the R&R find restore to factory, click go and it should start the process.

Yep. Than I do the process, but instead of starting up in XP it goed to R&R again.

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