Requesting for fwrestor.exe and fwbackup.exe

[blitzs]

Does anyone have a copy of these two files required for the backup of the HPA? Have followed the instructions of the white paper for extracting them but am unable to get it to work....

Looking at the pdf, it seems that the screen i got after interupting startup with the ibm access button is different from that in the white paper...

any kind souls with copies of these 2 files pls send to me at blitz83@rediffmail.com..

Many Thanks!!

[pdudas]

The fwbackup and fwrestor depends on the model and the type of the HDD in the thinkpad.

If you have a T42, then you cannot use the fwbackup/fwrestore method.
There is a Create Recovery Cd under the Access IBM folder in the start menü/programs.

If you have the T40/41 then you should press the Restore To factory contents in the Menu appearig after press the Access IBM button at boot.
You should check the settings of the predesktop area in the bios, because there is a settings you cannot see it all.

When the restore factory content is started, you should press F3.
Then you get a command prompt.

There you can find the fwbackup/fwrestore and you can make the IMGSet too.

I made a fat32 partition after the windowsXp's NTFS. On that partiton I had the Norton Commander. From the command line you can see this partition, so there you can place the imgset. Be careful!!!! If the predesktop area is not in secure state in bios, then you will overwrite it when you create a partiton behind the OS!!!!!!!When you make changes on HDD, the Predesktop Area must be in secure state!!!!!!

Here is the original text from IBM:
You cannot use this on T42.

"Appendix
Creating an image of the hard drive
The procedure for creating and delivering an image of the hard drive with an HPAbased
system is different than the procedure for creating and delivering an image of the
hard disk with a hidden partition.
To create an image of a hard disk using an HPA-based system, you must complete the
following procedure using IBM-supplied tools and a third party disk-imaging tool, such
as Phoenix ImageCast, PowerQuest DriveImage, or Symantec Ghost.
1. Ensure that the Access IBM Predesktop Area security level is set to Normal. This
is the IBM default setting.
2. Copy the FWBACKUP and FWRESTOR tools from the factory recovery area in
the HPA using the following procedure:
a. Start the system and press the Enter key or the Access IBM button during
startup.
b. Double-click the Recover to Factory Contents icon. The Recovery Menu is
displayed.
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c. Press the F3 key. A command prompt is displayed.
d. Change to the A: drive. (This is a virtual diskette drive in the hidden protected
area.)
e. Change to the recovery directory. The command prompt displays
A:\RECOVERY>
f. Insert a diskette into the diskette drive, which is mapped as the B: drive.
g. Type copy fwbackup.exe b:
h. Type copy fwrestor.exe b:
i. Eject the disk and turn the system off.
j. Follow the directions below for using FWBACKUP and FWRESTOR.
3. Create an image of the hidden protected area using a command prompt to run
the FWBACKUP tool.
FWBACKUP has the following format:
FWBACKUP size=<span file size must be between 25MB and
640MB> file=<Path and name of file set>
If you are creating an image of the HPA to a network drive, it must have a drive
letter assigned. For example, if you want to store an image of the HPA space to
drive D: that is of span size 640MB, the command is
FWBACKUP size=640 file=d:\IMGSET
The image set consists of files IMGSET.001…IMGSET.nnn.
4. Create an image of the main partition using a third party imaging tool to capture
first the C: partition, and then the main partition.
5. Restore the hard drive image using the following procedure:
a. Make sure the destination hard drive is blank.
b. Make sure that the master boot record is deleted and that no partitions
exist on the hard disk.
c. Run FWRESTOR from a command prompt. FWRESTOR has the
following format:
FWRESTOR file=<name of span file set>
If you are restoring an image of the HPA from a network drive, it must
have a drive letter assigned. For example, if you want to restore an image
from the D: drive that was created using the above example. The
command would be:
FWRESTOR file=D:\IMGSET
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This loads all the files in the image set (IMGSET.001 ...
IMGSET.nnn). All of the files in the image set must be in the same
subdirectory.
d. When this is complete, perform a power cycle.
6. Restore the main partition using the normal procedure of your imaging tool.
7. Restore the security setting to High Security, if this setting was changed in
Step 1."