Windows Vista killed my ThinkVantage?

[bihnkim]

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help:

Two days after I got my T60, I made a separate partition and installed Vista on it. Naturally, Vista's new boot manager took over XP's boot.ini, and for a while I had to go through Vista's OS selector. After a while, I decided I didn't want Vista on my machine, so I just deleted the partition, but it kept using the same OS selector, which defaulted to Vista (even though it was no longer available).

One thing led to another, and I basically decided I wanted to restore my machine to factory settings first and foremost. When I tried to use the pre-boot ThinkVantage option, it didn't take me to any version of RnR. Instead, it gave me an "Interrupted Start Menu" which had the option of starting up as normal [esc], going to setup/BIOS [f1], and booting from another device [f12].

Did I lose my Rescue 'n Recovery?

[GomJabbar]

Read in the following thread how I fixed mine.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=29782

[bihnkim]

I tried using the MBR repair CD image that was made available on the Lenovo website. It looked exactly like the screenshots Ramian provided in a thread somewhere, so I thought everything was okay, but midway through the repair, it said (the screen blinked very fast, so I'm not too sure what it said verbatim) that the partition 0 was not available at that the drive was not made bootable.

Now I'm stuck with a screen saying "Cannot boot from any device." It says that there is no valid operating system on my HDD.

[GomJabbar]

Did you follow the advice we keep trying to give everyone on this forum to make a set of Product Recovery Discs as soon as you get your new ThinkPad

If you have those, you can restore your T60 software-wise as it came from the factory.

If not, try the fixboot command from a Windows XP CD. It worked for a user in the following thread. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=27221