creation of recovery media

[bodik]

Hello,

I installed vista (using "two installations" trick) from moduslink dvd. After installation, I downloaded system update 3 and installed r&r 4. but now I'm unable to create recovery media. After selecting rescue medium (DVD) it shows: "excracting files" and after few seconds "An internal error has caused this process to fail". Does anybody know, how to solve it? Or is this a feature I cannot made recovery media because I bought thinkpad originally with windows xp and vista is only upgrade edition?

Thank you

[cpascu01]

I have that problem too. I haven't found a solution yet. I did use Vista's back up utility to make some sort of recovery cd.

[Rolloclan]

here are a couple of things to try and think about:

I have found that the first rescue disc must be a CD, rather than a DVD. Even though the option is there for a DVD, The Rescue and Recovery workspace does not support booting from a DVD, It can be booted from a CD however.

Rescue media functions like a boot diskette, however it is:
- About 350 MB in size by default, (plenty of room on a CD for this)


Try this and see if you get the same error. Let me know how it works out!

[bodik]

thank you for your reply.

I've created recovery cd from previously installed XP, and first disk is dvd too and I haven't problem to boot system from dvd.

Maybe you didn't understand it exactly, I have problem with creation of recovery disks set in vista. Dialog is shown after a few seconds after I click on information:

This operation will create recovery media. Rescue media enables you........etc

Does anybody else try to create recovery dvd when upgrading to vista from moduslink?

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