Rescue and Recovery AND Create Recover Media crash

Hi,
I need some guidance on my problems with Think Vantage. I am new to this forum and overwhelmed by the volume of information.
My problem. "Rescue and Recovery" AND "Create Recover Media" crash when I attempt to use them.
I have a Lenovo N100 0768A27 running XP. Everything is up-to-date. I have no other problems!
I have downloaded the System Tool Box but that does not want to work either.
I am running R&R version 3.01.1037.00 and I think Client Security 6.1.44.0 but is does not show in my application list only when I logon.
I must confess to turning RR off for a while as I was short of space.
I have tried updating RR to version 4.2 but cannot de-install original version.
I would appreciate some direction on who to step thru this problem and what info to use.
Regards
Garry
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hey Thegazzman00,
welcome to the forums and for this, was there any error when it crash or when you were trying to upgrade to version 4.2 ?
If yes, could you provide a screenshot for us ? Many thanks for that.
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I think your laptop is not set to boot from the DVD-rom. You have to 1st go to bios and set the 1st boot device to be the dvd-rom. After that, insert the recovery startup disc and it should take you to the recovery menu.
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How to use the rescue and recovery, and the product recovery discs ?

Hi everyone,
I've just recently became a new owner of a T61, and really enjoying it. I haven't had a chance yet to test-drive the lenovo phone support, as I have not yet screwed anything up that bad that required their help. I did try a clean factory reinstall from the service partition and it worked great. I would like to find out, how does one use the rescue and recovery startup disc, and the product recovery discs that I created myself? From my previous experience with Dell and HP, I only had to insert the first one and restart the computer, and the rest followed. But with ThinkPads, if I ever wanted to bring it to a clean factory state using those discs, do I use rescue and recovery first, followed by the product recovery? I'm curious, what is the difference between the two?
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blake_ibm wrote:
Hi! I'm blake
There is no diff between the two... One is on the Hard Drive and the other on CD/DVD.
Having the HDD version (pre-installed) is a good for trouble shooting. It uses a whole diff O/S on a whole diff partition (not C.
So if you are having problems and boot to RnR (via F11), and those problems go away. you know your issue is software related. If you still have the same problems probly Hardware related... IT IS AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO TAKE WINDOWS OUT OF THE PROBLEM.
Other then that. You can re-image another HDD from disks, you can't do that with the F11 version.
dose all that make sense?
Hi blake_ibm,
Thanks. All this makes perfect sense to me, but that's not what I'm asking for. My question is this: if I wanted to bring my notebook to its factory shipped condition using my recovery cd's, how do I do that? Do I insert cd1 first and then restart the notebook, or do I just insert it without restarting it, or perhaps I should use first the rescue and recovery?
You said that there is no difference between the two, but what two are you talking about man? I am not comparing cd recovery to partition recovery. I am talking about rescue and recovery cd, with system recovery cd's. These are the two things that I'm talking about.
I'm really grateful for all replies, but please people, read the question first !!!
I would really appreciate if someone could explain the steps involved in performing a clean factory recovery, using the cd's, and not the recovery partition. I just want to know for the future, in case one day I have to do it. That is all I'm asking.
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I'm not sure what answer you are looking for. R&R modifies the boot loader, and other software can also modify it. From R&R perspective, we can't possibly know every other piece of software that modifies the boot loader, or know when an existing boot loader is already installed which is incompatible with R&R.
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Based on your description I don't think Rescue & Recovery or Client Security Solution have any value for you.

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I shutdown laptop for 5 seconds and enable it, and after push the blue button, i can't see any restore options (see the picture)
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Haven't tried this but it sounds promising:
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Deselect "Hide protected operating system files"
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*I have to do a backup now...
Be extremely careful if you do this. The backups are tracked in other places than just the folder location on the hard drive and simply deleting them from the folder (which is not expected behavior) can cause problems. If you opt to do this, I recommend "deleting" them again via the RnR UI to clean up references in the registry, etc.
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Rescue and Recovery Capability to recover other operating systems

Hello Folks,
I have a question regarding R&R. I have a thinkpad T520 running windows 7. It came with a 500GB hdd and I allocated 50GB of that to a Linux system. I bought a 1 TB HDD and would like to replace the one inside, and this brings me to my question;
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*If the above is indeed not possible, is there a way to change my settings on R&R to do it or do I have to resort to another paid 3rd party software to do that for me.
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Hello and welcome,
I can't answer directly so apologies for crashing your thread. I'd be very surprised if R&R recognized anything but windows-flavored partitions. I don't have one of my old multi-boot ThinkPads at hand to test or I would.
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Having said that, I actually use Acronis for backup. It can handle multi-OS backups but in my experience I always had to repair the Linux partition after a restore.
Is the virtual machine approach something that would work for you? If not you might use one of the Linux backup approaches to save that partition separately.
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Satellite A205-replaced HDD and recovery CD not working; media test failure

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Wait a moment.
I believe with your answers you go in the wrong direction.
Timox asked very good question but you didn't offer exact answer.
Please don't mix two very important but completely different things:
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