Problems in Recovering a R52

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kodo2006 · #1 Post by **kodo2006** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:51 pm

Hi,
i hope, that somebody here can help me.
I have:
a R52

a "clean" harddisk

a set of 6 recovery cd's, made for a R52 and a T43
version.txt of the 1st disk:
Field Value
0) Name: R52,T43
1) CD#: Disc 1 of 6
2) Date: 07/01/2005
3) CD P/N: 39K8515
4) OS: XP-P SP2
5) Lang: GR
6) FRU#: 39K8490
7) MS Date 2004

2 R&R disks one is V2.04.xx and one is 3.1, which i made with another harddisk installed with a Windows XP Pro SP2

i want to recover this harddisk into the delivery state
what i try:
i boot from the R&R boot disks, choose the third option, choose no data backup and immediately get the message:
in german
"Die Funktion zur Produktwiederherstellung wurde von diesem System entfernt"
my try in english:
"The function for Product Recovery was removed from this system"
can please anybody help me in understanding this message and tell me, what i can do to prevent this or why it does occur?

This did already cost me hours and any help would be appreciated

Thanks a lot in advance
Stephan

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:14 pm

Can you boot from Disk 1? I have a set of those CD's as a result of putting a hard drive into a client T43 and the process worked fine. It was a while back, and I cannot remember whether I started with Disk 1 or the R&R CD. Try IBM Help as the machine may still be under warranty and ask them to guide you through the recovery.
... JD Hurst

kodo2006 · #3 Post by **kodo2006** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:28 pm

Hi,
thanks for reply, no, the Thinkpad isn't under warranty any more

the 1st disk is not bootable, i have to boot with the R&R boot disk

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:08 pm

Try booting from the first CD. Before making any selections (that is after it has booted, but no selections), Press F3 and then perhaps ESC to get back to a DOS prompt.

Run FDISK and delete all partitions. Then run FDISK /mbr to fix the master boot record. Then try re-imaging.
... JD Hurst

kodo2006 · #5 Post by **kodo2006** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:31 am

Thanks, i will try it this evening

best regards
Stephan

kodo2006 · #6 Post by **kodo2006** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:28 am

Hi,

finally i got it working

How?
Ok, i found an old japanese version of RnR 2.xx in some well known p2p network

booted from it, clicked some buttons, which i thought they could be the right ones (japanese), then after a reboot, it wanted the 6 cd set YEAH
and the best: after finishing recovery, the hpa language is german

thanks

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