T42 Rescue and Recovery

[andertrack]

I am trying to format my new hard drive with the Rescue and Recovery discs. When I finish the whole process, when the disk boots, all it does is go to rescue and recovery (I do not press any buttons). I checked the partitions out with Acronis True Image 10.0 and most of the disk is unallocated. Can anybody help me out with this? Thanks.

T42 2373-M3U

[al7kz]

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[GomJabbar]

When you use the Product Recovery Discs, which I believe is what you are saying, here is what happens. You boot up the Rescue Media CD (1st disk) and enter Rescue and Recovery. You choose to Restore Factory Contents. You are prompted to put the other CD's in the drive. When it finishes copying the data off of the CD's, you are prompted to remove the CD and reboot. It boots up into Rescue and Recovery again. Now you tell it again to Restore Factory Contents (again). This time, your system will be restored. You will go through several reboots.

When you boot up the Product Recovery Discs and use them, what is on the CD's is copied to and installed on the service partition. When you boot up again from the service partition, then you can begin the Restore Factory Contents process. I hope this makes sense.

[pipp8]

Hi GomJabbar,
last month I posted on another topic a question about Rescue 'n Recovery on T42p ( XP, with RNR V. 4.00.0114.00 see http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=43029), but from the discussion it seems that this version is not supported on this model (actually I can't believe that).
Basically I made a lot of backups but when I try to restore from my network drive only the file name is restored with 0 byte file size.
As of your knowledge is there any mean to restore files using R&R and network drive on a T42 ?

Thanks a lot.

[GomJabbar]

Hi GomJabbar,
last month I posted on another topic a question about Rescue 'n Recovery on T42p ( XP, with RNR V. 4.00.0114.00 see http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=43029), but from the discussion it seems that this version is not supported on this model (actually I can't believe that).

Believe what you want.

ThinkVantage(TM) Rescue and Recovery(TM)
Combo installer including all supported languages
for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 and XP
version 4.0.0114
Installation Readme

Supported systems
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- Lenovo 3000 C100, C200, N100, and V100 notebook systems
- Lenovo 3000 J100, J105, J110 and J115 desktop systems
- ThinkPad G41, G50
- ThinkPad R50, R50e, R50p, R51, R51e, R52, R60, R60e
- ThinkPad T43, T43p, T60, T60p
- ThinkPad X32, X40, X41, X41 Tablet, X60, X60s
- ThinkPad Z60m, Z60s, Z60t, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t
<I snipped out the ThinkCentre Desktop systems that follow>

This version of Rescue and Recovery may also work with other systems that meet the system requirements. However, no testing has been done with these systems and no support is provided for using Rescue and Recovery on any system other than those listed as a "Supported system".

System requirements
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- Update your system to the latest BIOS
- 1.5 GB of free space on your hard disk drive (1.5 GB required for installation)
- 512 MB of memory recommended
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or higher, or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or higher
- 8 MB of VRAM shared memory set in BIOS

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/th ... 0_114c.txt

I know that ashleys uses Rescue and Recovery all the time. He certainly has more experience with it than I do. ashleys does not install RnR to the service partition. He installs RnR to the C:\ Windows partition. That might be why he was able to get it to work on the T30.

Whether it's siginificant or not I don't know but I do not have the hidden partition on my machine.