Can't make X300 baseline recovery disk

I have a new X300 and an 80GB Lacie Safe Mobile Hard Drive connected by USB as Drive F: ThinkVantage Rescue & Recovery does not recognize the existence of this external drive as a destination for my Rescue and Recovery files. The USB connection was established before the R&R workspace was opened. The two hardware products otherwise work fine together.

Hey mate,
First of all it would be interesting to know what notebook you have. Maybe it was delivered with Windows 98 recovery disk I dont know.
Theoretically it could be a problem of the CD. Just try another disk and see what happens.

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Hi,
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eggann wrote:
I'm using an external disk to make my backup with time machine. Therefore I formatted the disk for Mac OS Extended initially and the first backups went fine.
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