Factory install hangs, what do you think?

[thinkpac]

A few days ago I had used the recovery discs to do a factory install of XP on my T60. It went perfectly fine. But then I was experimenting with some stuff in XP, and got it into a state where I couldn't get it back to normal, so I decided to use the recovery discs once again to do a factory install. This time it had a problem with one of the scripts that executes on the Windows desktop. There was a dialog box that said "IBM Customizations in progress", along with a DOS window executing a script. But the script froze on a "tvtrnr3.exe" command. And the desktop stopped responding. I thought that was a bad sign, so I power cycled the T60, and loaded the R&R off the hard drive and started the recovery all over again. But once again, it froze at the same place. This time I just power cycled and let it go back into Windows, and then everything seemed to finish without any further problems. But I am wondering if the freeze may have caused something in the installation to not be completed properly? Is that possible?

It's really weird that the first time I tried it, it worked perfectly fine, and then the next 2 times I tried it the system froze in the exact same place.

[Harryc]

In order to run the Rescue and Recovery software, the installer runs the installation file tvtrnr3.exe
So, if anything, you might want to check that all functions of R&R are there. If not, reinstall it. Also
try zeroing out your drive with activekilldisk before running the recovery CDs.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... Q2QAK.html

[thinkpac]

Thanks, I used DFT to erase the boot sector of the hard drive (didn't want to wait hours to zero it out, so I thought just erasing the boot sector might be good enough), and tried it again, and I didn't get the hang.