Can't factory restore from CDs or Hard Drive

[oghowie]

I recently created Recovery Discs in Windows XP, but when I insert Disc 2, it always says that it is the incorrect disc so I cannot continue the factory restore.

I'm trying to restore by booting into the Rescue and Recovery on my hard drive, but it cannot find the hidden factory partition on the hd. It also now says that the restore had a "convertion" error and will not let me try to look at my hard drive to restore anymore. If I use the RR boot disc, it will let me try to restore, but it finds nothing restorable on the HD.

I did look at the hard drive and see 2 partitions with one being a IBM_SERVICE partition with 3.9GB total size and 2.9GB free space.

Please help...

[sjthinkpader]

The R&R Partition should have almost 4GB of data. What happens when you press F11 at boot time.

[oghowie]

The R&R Partition should have almost 4GB of data. What happens when you press F11 at boot time.

Doesn't really seems like anything happens. It just goes to Rescue and Recovery.

Could it be that the Partition that I'm seeing is what the recovery disc installed before I could finish?

[sjthinkpader]

Yes, it is possible that the R&R partition creation operation did not finish properly.