Recovery failed, out of battery

[Mighty_Mauz]

I wanted to set my new T400 back to factory defaults, by using the thinkvantage button during start up. While recovering in Rescue & Recovery the laptop turned off, because it didn't have any power anymore. The power cable was not attached properly

Now I wanted to recover it again, but I cannot start windows and R&R tries to fix windows, but it can't. Also I get the message "you must log in to access system recovery options"

Is there anything I can do to fix the laptop?

[Brad]

Does pressing F11 during startup help?

Brad

[Mighty_Mauz]

Then it starts the Startup Repair and it tells me that windows cannot repair the computer automatically. And if I want to view the Advanced recovery options, it gives me the message above, that I should log in.

[andyP]

Are you able to run a repair from a Vista boot cd? I would give that a go first. If you can't or it didn't help, use a floppy drive and run the Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette which will hopefully enable you to access the service partition and start over.

If all else fails you could use the recovery disks which you hopefully made

[Mighty_Mauz]

The problem is that I want to restore the laptop to factory default, because I want to return the laptop to the store. They gave me one with CCFL backlight, and I wanted one with LED. So it wouldn't help the case if I opened up the cd packages. And also I don't have an external floppy drive.

[Mighty_Mauz]

I just connected the hdd with a usb adapter to my old laptop and it still has 3 partitions:
- SERVICEV003 (691mb of 1.46 gb available)
- SW_Preload (218 of 221 gb available)
- Lenovo (1.8 of 9.76 gb available)
So I don't know if I can get it back to the original settings, but there is some hope.

It looks like there is something wrong with the boot configuration.

[Harryc]

Why would anyone care if you use the recovery CD's if the machine is in your posession. I do not understand. Just use them.

[Mighty_Mauz]

Well, the problem was that I wanted to send the laptop back to the store and in order to do that, I should leave everything as original as possible. And to open cd covers wouldn't really help. But everything is solved: I installed Windows 7 and after that I could run recovery as it should. So I set it back to factory default settings, sent it back and got my money back!