Window 7 - Thinkvantage/Rescue and Recovery?

[Worzyl]

Today my original harddrive with Windows XP got corrupted, but I managed to pull of the files that I needed from the Rescue and Recovery with Thinkvantage. All good. However for some reason it wont let me reformat the Harddrive as it says it keeps failing to do so. This led me to replace the stock 100GB drive with the 250GB Momentus XT hybrid drive as well as install Windows 7 onto it - both which have been sitting on the table for quite some time.

My questions are:

1) Is it possible to install the /Thinkvantage/Rescue and Recovery (I have the CD's) onto Windows 7 in case something like this happens again and I'm able to pull files off. I want to be able to press that blue button again.

2) My graphic card drivers. I presume(when I look for them) will work fine on Windows 7?

3) What can I do about the 100GB harddrive? - It now just crossed my mind that maybe I could of reformatted it using the CD's....

I will be also be doing the Harddrive cloning very soon when all this is sorted.
Thanks

Edit: I just went to the download t60p driver page on the Lenovo site and downloading the thinkvantage rescue recovery module right now. For some reason I cant seem to find the V5250 drivers.....

[Harryc]

1.) No
2.) What machine is this for, a T60P? You want to download and install the Vista Drivers.
3.) Run the hard drive manufacturers diagnostic on it. If it passes then reformat it.
The Rescue and Recovery module will not write a new recovery partition on the drive. You need to do that from scratch with Windows 7 Recovery CD's. The issue is that they do not exist for a T60P.

[Worzyl]

Thanks Harryc.

The machine I'm downloading the video drivers for is the T60p (in my signature). So I need to install the vista V5250 drivers on Windows 7?
I found and am currently downloading 9-11 legacy 7 vista 32 64 mobility drivers but I'm not to sure if that is what I need. (I use this machine for 3D/2D animation work and don't play games.)

The Rescue and Recovery module on the website is a Windows 7 version that apparently works on the following laptops:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-73612 - or is this a mistake?

Thanks

Edit: I installed the ATI CCC drivers and had a look on CCC and PC wizard where it now displays the name of the graphics card which it didn't before. Interestingly enough, when I went into the catalyst control centre and clicked on System Information then display, the INF reads:
oem3.INF (ati2mtag_M56GL section). Does this mean that it's using an M56 driver and not an M66 which is what the V5250 is?

[Worzyl]

Ran diagnostics and manage to reinstall winxp on the old harddrive (Thanks Harryc once again). I just checked on the xp version of catalyst control centre and it says 512MB with hyper memory in the information display. On windows 7 I seem to recall that it was only using 256mb. I'll double check...

Edit: I put back the harddrive running windows 7 and on the CCC it says that the memory size is 1535MB! Can anyone shed any light on this? Also it seems to be using the latest windows xp drivers of 2009....

[Merc]

Ran diagnostics and manage to reinstall winxp on the old harddrive (Thanks Harryc once again). I just checked on the xp version of catalyst control centre and it says 512MB with hyper memory in the information display. On windows 7 I seem to recall that it was only using 256mb. I'll double check...

Edit: I put back the harddrive running windows 7 and on the CCC it says that the memory size is 1535MB! Can anyone shed any light on this? Also it seems to be using the latest windows xp drivers of 2009....

1. Vista drivers are almost always a good fit for Win 7 when the OEM hasn't made Win 7 specific drivers for their product. Just differentiate between 32 and 64 bit.
2. Hypermemory is an AMD (ATI) program that utilizes system memory to augment GDDR. I believe it is dynamic in that it uses what it needs for a given task and therefore the available memory goes up and down with the given task. Google hypermemory for more in-depth knowledge and if I am wrong please let me know.
3. If you have gotten the rig to work with Win 7 I'd stick with that. XP seems old and doddering now in comparison.