Creating DVDs with Rescue and Recovery 4.5 on Win7 64bit

Hi , I have a question reguarding the rescue and recovery DVD creation.
When I click the Q drive Lenovo_Recovery, the program will ask me if I want to create recovery media or reclaim disk space.
What I want to aks is, does making the DVD disks after patching the OS and re-Partition (the originally just one huge C drive which needed to repartition to smaller system drive) matter? or It doesn't matter at all?

The size of the C drive is really not important during the backup of the Q drive.
Test the backup medium (dvd set, USB) BEFORE you decide to delete Q drive. ie, boot the recovery set, then exit. If you have plenty of space on your HDD, I would KEEP the q drive.
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If you ever use the recovery set, and multiple partitions(c,d,e), you have considerations, ie will it wipe the whole HDD blank before starting.
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If you are using DVD, disk 1 is the bootable, disk 2 and 3 are data disks. Just boot using disk 1, then exit.

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I note an option "Create a backup to CDs/DVDs in RnR. Does this option produce a set of bootable disks which is equivalent to factory rescue disks but which also contains my installed programs? In other words, does it create an image of the fully installed HDD which can be restored in future?
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Hi,
in case this is (as you said) directly in the RnR GUI, then this is the option, which will create a full backup of the current state of your system on CD/DVDs. To the answer is YES.
Regarding your second question:
These DVD's that you will create will not behave like the original DVDs. In case you will recover the whole system using these newly created DVD's then the procedure will be a bit different then the one, that is used by the original Recovery DVD'.
However, the basic is still that same:
- you bootup from the first DVD, make few "clicing" and the application will do the rest.
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Hi North450,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that the HDD was not working and is replaced in your J105 Desktop, if you have created the recovery discs before the HDD got crashed. I suggest you to install the OS (Operating System) using the Recovery discs to factory reset as it will create the default recommended partitions required for the computer and I’m sorry to inform you that the SATA drivers are not available in our support website for Windows Xp, but can be download from the Intel. Below is the link to download the driver:
Intel Download Center
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Hi all.
It's my first time in this forum.
I have a problem, with Rescue and Recovery, after installing Norton Internet Security 2010 on my T43.
The message I get it:
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I tried to close the Norton but I couldn't find how.
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Hi and welcome to the forum,
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My laptop was backing up to my NAS using Rescue and Recovery (R+R). I no longer have that laptop. How can I access those backups and retrieve files using another Lenovo PC now?
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bighill89, welcome to the forum,
do you know which version of R&R was installed on the ThinkPad and did you by any chance create a cd?
If there are version differences between the two systems there may be problems recovering data out of the backups, using a rescue cd may help. The only doubts I have here is whether or not the correct network driver will be present on the cd allowing you to access the NAS.
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Time Capsule with Rescue and Recovery v4

I am unable to backup my Thinkpad X300 on to Time Capsule using Rescue and Recovery v4. Other Windows XP applications can see the Time Capsule just fine.
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I have a T500 (2082 52G) with XP running. Having had problems with some software I tried to use Rescue and Recovery 4 to recover from an earlier backup. However, the Recovery still is at 0 % after 3 hours. Do I have an opportunity to shut down the system or cancel the recovery without crashing anything? I read "Dont shut down during the process" at the beginning. As I am business user it is _most_ important not to loose any data.
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Are you sure Q: partition is absolutely empty? Normally .WIM files on partition Q: are stored in hidden directory FactoryRecovery.
Check out Lenovo Factory Recovery Discs within Control Panel for creating factory image media.
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Hi, using an Undelete-program I finally managed to remove a failing Rescue and Recovery (RnR) 3.01.x. Now, trying to install RnR 4.21.x, it says that it's 'not enough space in Startup'.
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Hi,
maybe one of the below links may help you out:
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http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73630#10
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Hmmm,
Seems like that _should_ work. Here's a way you might be able to finesse it: go to the advanced R&R menu in Win 7 and create rescue media on your USB drive. It's essentially the same process as creating the CD - it makes the USB drive bootable and puts a copy of R&R there.
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Then just boot the external USB drive and see if R&R recognizes a backup image on the same drive from which you booted.
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Hi Itai,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum.
Please double check If the UAC is off, so Enhanced Protected Mode doesn't do anything.
See this thread with similar question:
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