Cannot start from the system after rescue and recovery

I have T42 and did "restore factory contents."  In the process, I use IBM product recovery CD from 1 to 6 and reboot.  However it does not start from Windows XP but IBM rescue and recovery with rapid restore.  I cannot get out form this although I restart  the computer.  I appreciate any advice. Thanks.

Hello and welcome,
My memory is a little fuzzy on this, but IIRC some of the older laptops used a 2-step recovery process.  You first did the recovery from CD which put the recovery image and restore program on the HD.  One the next boot, the restore program starts, and you select to restore your drive from there.
So, do the recovery from media, reboot to the newly installed restore program, and select to restore your hard drive.
I hope that makes sense... and applies to your machine...
Z.
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  • After rescue and recovery, I can not find the documents

    After rescue and recovery, I can not find the documents created after the restore point date.
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    Hi,
    not sure, what exactly the description should tell me, but I guess, that your scenario is like this:
    - you captured some RnR backup
    - made some changes to the system
    - restored the backup
    and now the changes, that you have mde afte the backup was captured are gone.
    If this is your case, then this is a correct situation.
    The backup will restore the whole system back to the stage, as you selected, while it will remove/modify the packages, that have been changed/created  after the time, when the backup was captured.
    In the stage, where you have restored the system, you had the chance to save some files, but as it looks, this did not happened.
    Please correct me if I understod it wrongly.
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  • Can not restore factory operating system by Rescue and Recovery lenovo 3000 N200 - please HELP!!!

    Hello,
    I am in very big problem hope you can help my with it!
    i have lenovo 3000 N200 Notebook , my operating system  since yesterday  i have been formated the partition C after Rescue and Recovery didn't help and install a diffrent OS, i didn't delete the lenovo Partition!!
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  • Cannot Boot To Windows After Rescue And Recovery

    I used the Rescue And Recovery disks (7 disks plus actually recovery cd) on my T42. I received the cd set direct from IBM. I've used the CDs in the past with no issues. This time after following the instructions and completing the restore, I cannot get the computer to boot to windows. It keeps going back to the Rescue And Recovery program. What can I do?

    Refer to the following guide:
    FAQ "How to use Recovery CD Disc Set".
    "Also, if you get stuck after step 9 with Rescue and Recovery keeps on booting in a loop and not entering Windows then all you need to do is: GomJabbar wrote: While in Rescue and Recovery (with all CD's removed from your optical drive) you need to tell it to Restore Factory Contents. All the CD's really do is install Rescue and Recovery and the files needed to Restore Windows and the original Factory software."
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  • ThinkVantage button startup behavior changes after Rescue and Recovery

    I recently bought a Thinkpad X301 (2777-CTO). When booting my computer, I see the following message: "To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button". Initially, when I press this ThinkVantage button on startup, I get a "Startup Interrupt Menu", pictured at http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4773/startupinterruptmenu.png
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    - There appears to be no straight-forward way of reverting back to the desired (original) behavior.
    - The initial prompt on the power-on splash screen is now misleading. Although it still says "To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button"; the way the button acts, it would probably be more accurate to say "To start Rescue and Recovery, press the blue ThinkVantage button" instead.
    - This behavior breaks the "Option Keys Display" option in the BIOS setup. Although I enabled this option, which should cause the system to display which key does what (e.g., F1 for BIOS), this is not displayed.
    - Running Rescue and Recovery results in a loss of functionality (instead of simply restoring the system to the initial state).
    - And anytime I press the blue ThinkVantage button (as instructed) instead of F1 or F12, I end up wasting several minutes, waiting for Rescue and Recovery to finish booting before I can properly shut it down and try again.
    This problem appears to have existed for a long time (since 2008; http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/241845-thinkvantage-boot-menu-boots-straight-into-rescue-... ). However, the only "solution" that I have found is just a workaround: avoid pressing the ThinkVantage button (as instructed by the power-on splash screen).
    The ideal solution would be to have a BIOS (or Rescue and Recovery) update which will prevent the ThinkVantage button from losing its original function after running Rescue and Recovery. I know that this is a minor bug, but this bug and another BIOS bug (in the network boot order menu, which I'll post after this one), which arose in less than a week after I received the computer, makes me question the ThinkPad's reputation for high-quality engineering.

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  • Dial-up Internet connection support software missing after Rescue and Recovery on T42p

    Hi!
    I have a ThinkPad T42p laptop computer with Machine Type: 2373-HSG and Serial Number: xxxxxxx.
    The computer came with Windows XP Professional SP1 as well as a number of useful tools and applications preinstalled by the factory.
    One of them was a piece of software called something like "Call Waiting" or something similar, as I cannot now remember very well. Its purpose was to allow users receive an incoming telephone call while being connected to the Internet through a dial-up modem connection.
    Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, a virus caused so severe a damage to my system that I had to use the Rescue and Recovery feature to have the preloaded operating system, reinstalled.
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    Wow.. I didn’t think there was anyone left on 56k Dial up...
    I think I vaguely remember the software from my old T41 but I think it was IBM propriety and as I don't have that Thinkpad any more unable to check.
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    My ThinkPad SL400 has experienced a massive failure.  I was able to rescue my documents, etc., but the boot software was corrupted and I needed to do a complete system restore.  I didn't have viable rescue and recovery discs and so paid $45 plus shipping to order a set of them from Lenovo.  They came with instructions, which I have followed.
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  • Issues with a T61 harddisk, UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME, cannot also get in the Rescue and Recovery

    Dear Lenovo Support Community,
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    2. I can see and read the Service part of the drive from Windows (no recovery program needed) while connecting the drive through external enclosure to another computer. Can I run a program from the Service part of disk and make those T61 Recovery CD and DVD?
    3. If I purchase the Recovery CD(s) from Lenovo, would they be doing any magic or help in my case described above?
    4. Can I make recovery CD(s) from another T61 laptop and use them for mine?
    Thanks all for reading my long post and helping me. God Bless.
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    Sorry, step three was a bit of humor I added.
    Actually these recovery CDs were produced before the first T61 was made, probably in 2006. The T61 line was replaced in 2008.
    You can activate with the code on your COA, I've done it many times, just make sure you do a full (new) installation, not an upgrade, from an oem disc.
    If you do end up using the original product recovery disc set, your steps are more like this...
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    2. Install disc two...   wait 30-60mins
    3. Install disc three...  wait 30-60mins
    4. Install disc four...   wait 30-60mins
    5. Install disc five...  wait 30-60mins
    6. Install disc six...   wait 30-60mins
    7. Install disc seven...   wait 30-60mins
    8. Install disc eight...  wait 30-60mins
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    11. go to windows update and update several years worth of patches and hotfixes. (1-4 hours)
    12. kick back and have a warm beer and cold pizza, if there is any left after I finished hours ago and celibrated already.
    Also, after going through all that, you've not only installed windows, then replaced nearly the entire operating system, but you've also used valuable harddisc space to make several redundant copies of the outdated files, drivers and apps. 
    Please understand, I'm not saying the recovery discs are a bad design, they work great, and back in 2006-7-8-9 I'd happily go through all that work, but today all the stuff on them is to old so it's futile to go through all that. It would be really nice if Lenovo updated the install discs, and we could download the latest version to use, but they basically just leave them untouched after the model line is released, so nothing on that disc is newer then about 2006.
    I'll also add that both George and I have done this well over 100 times each, so we wouldn't be suggesting this if it wasn't the best option, but in the end you'll have a working system no matter which route you take to get there, so the only question to ask yourself is...
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  • Ideas to improve the Rescue and Recovery System

    Hi,
    some weeks ago I ned to restore my system, while this process there was some difficulties with the Rescue and Recovery. But First my configuration:
    I'm using a T61p with Windows Vista Ultimate installed.
    On the System there are 5 Partitions
    1. Rescue and Recovery
    2. Windows Bootstrap
    3. BitLocker Encrypted Windows Partition
    4. Linux /boot
    5. Encrypted Linux LVM
    So, one morning I tried to start my ThinkPad and nothing worked anymore. After a Short time I found out that the boot sector of the windows bootstrap partition was corrupted. The Linux Partition worked fine and was startable with a GRUB CD-Rom.
    Ich checked out the Rescue and Recovery system and was sad that I isn't possible to recover the boot sector of the bootstrap partition. The only way to rescue my system was to reinstall windows at all!
    Thats a bad solution, because you can recover the boot sector with every OEM-DVD of Windows Vista, but this DVD is not available for a ThinkPad user.
    So I backuped my files and reinstalled the system. While the reinstallation process rescue and recovery gives the option to install windows on C:. But on such a multiboot configuration it is not very clear what drive C: is. After some experiment I think he is taking the first parition after Rescue and Recovery or the first free space after it. At this place it would be much better if I can choose a parition for the installation.
    So, if a Lenovo engineer is reading this, please think about to:
    - Include some tools like boot sector recovering in the Rescue and  Recovery system
    - Adding a mode where you can choose the parition to install Windows.
    Over and above that I'm really happy with my ThinkPad.
    Thanks for reading.

    Greetings,
    This isn't so much a reply to Cobelius, or a solution, but a commiseration of sorts.  Or at least an "I hear ya, buddy, I wish they'd improve some things about Rescue and Recovery, too."
    I notice that no one else has replied to this thread.  I hope at least that someone will read these posts, and pass 'em on to the appropriate developers.
    Here's my story:
    I am, overall, extremely happy with my brand, spanking new T500.  So far, I'm only running a single OS, Vista Business 64.
    However, I did make the following 'tweaks' to my setup, which brings out the flaws in the Rescue and Recovery software:
    1) I used Truecrypt 6.1a to encrypt my system partition (leaving the original rescue partition intact)
    (Side Note:  Where my original drive C came with tons of empty space, I used DISKPART to shrink it a bit an created another primary partition as drive D.  Hey, why the heck not?  Originally, I wanted TrueCrypt to encrypt the entire drive, but this failed.  Truecrypt said this was due to a hardware failure, but 20 hours of my life wasted scanning the drive with HDD Regenerator 1.51 revealed no bad sectors.  So now Drive D is encrypted as an ordinary TrueCrypt container and mounted upon login. I'm okay with this solution,  but if anyone wants to research why TrueCrypt couldn't do the whole disk, you have my thanks in advance.)
    2) I bought a Maxtor BlackArmor(tm) hardware-encrypted USB external drive to use for my backups.  I successfully used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery tool to both create specific file backups as well as to image my entire drive C onto the BlackArmor device, once I mounted it (by running a built-in executable and supplying it with my secret password)
    3) I set a Lenovo BIOS password for unlocking the boot hard drive.
    So far, so good.  I type the BIOS drive password, then theTrueCrypt password, and Vista takes over 12 minutes to become usable and, well, that's a Microsoft issue, isn't it?
    But, here's the deal: WHAT IF I CAN'T BOOT FROM THE HARD DRIVE ANYMORE?  Well, TrueCrypt made me create a bootable rescue CD which can restore my encrypted boot sector or permanently decrypt my hard drive.  What it can also do is let me press the ESC key to boot without providing a password, which does a supposedly wonderful thing -- since it fails to boot my drive C, it takes me straight into the Lenovo Rescue And Recovery session.
    The problem is, the Lenovo boot (version 4) takes me AUTOMATICALLY into a self-repair utility which wastes another 10 minutes of my time to finally tell me --d'uh-- that my boot sector is 'corrupted'  (it isn't; it's merely ENCRYPTED by TrueCrypt.  As it should be).
    FLAW NUMBER 1:  Rescue and Recovery should provide a default menu where automatic diagnosis is a CHOICE the user can elect not to make, or abort if it has begun.
    FLAW NUMBER 2: You guys should enhance what appears to be a Vista PE environment (or BartPE, or whatever) with a few utilities, including an Explorer-like browser to examine the disk (which would snow nothing in my case, as my drives are encrypted),  and a command prompt, and the ability to launch executables.  The environment should also recognize USB drives.
    As it happens,  I used a third-party Vista PE rescue CD, Active@ Partition Recovery, to boot an environment having the utilities I needed.  Using this tool, I was able to recognize a USB key that had TrueCrypt installed in 'traveller' mode (no windows registry keys needed).  Running this app and providing my truecrypt password enabled me to unlock my Drive C, albeit by mounting it as another drive letter.  This made it possible to read and write to my disk.
     The encrypted Maxtor drive is visible, too, from this boot environment,  but it appears as a CD-ROM drive, and yields no secrets until you run an executable file on it and enter the drive's password. And that worked, too.  So I could find files to copy over to my hard drive, if I needed to.
    However, in order to RESTORE files to my drive, I'd still need to be able to run Rescue and Recovery, or at least the Recovery portion.  Which  brings me to:
    FUNDAMENTAL FLAW NUMBER 3:  You need to create a Recovery tool that can run from within an external USB drive, without requiring shared .DLLs in various subfolders or windows registry entries.  Lord knows, I certainly tried to copy  RestoreNow.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery onto my Maxtor drive, along with whatever DLLs it called for, but it was hopeless.  The damned thing just wouldn't run from the USB drive on the PE environment.
    The way I see it, then, is that there really is no way to restore my hard drive should I suffer a catastrophic failure.  Major bummer.
    FUNDAMENTAL FLAW NUMBER 4: When I got my laptop, I created a series of recovery disks using the Lenovo supplied software. Booting with the first CD, however, only proved depressing, as I had to agree that the ONLY purpose for this CD was to recover my PC to factory-shipped condition.  Which meant erasing my drive and restoring it with the contents of the other DVDs.  But I want to restore what I backed up with Rescue and Recovery!  My life SINCE the laptop shipped from the factory!   Geez, Louise, why not let me choose to do THAT, too?
    (Of course, the boot CD would need to allow me to execute the Maxtor program that unlocks my encrypted USB drive, and also let me execute TrueCrypt to unlock my hard drive.)
    I sure hope someone forwards this to a developer who'll take it seriously, after s/he stops chuckling.  You guys should just ship a usable Vista PE rescue CD with every laptop, I think.  And a recovery-only tool that doesn't need DLLs or Registry Entries to run. It would help in so many ways.
    In the meantime, I guess I'd better do all I can to ensure my laptop's hard drive doesn't die on me.
    Again, other than for this teeny problem that "don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world," I'm really happy with my T500.
    Thanks for reading this, too.  And happy holidays.

  • Rescue and Recovery after update from Windows Vista to 7

    I've updated my 2 years old Lenovo T60 from the preinstalled Windows Vista to Windows 7. For short: I like it.
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    I've updated my 2 years old Lenovo T60 from the preinstalled Windows Vista to Windows 7. For short: I like it.
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    The factory partition can't be updated - it is your recovery for what came out of the box with the system.  You can create factory recovery CD's/DVD's and store them somewhere just in case, and then you should be able to remove that partition and reclaim the space.  At that point, Rescue and Recovery for Win7 becomes your sole recovery option.
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