Rescue and Recovery on non-lenovo computer?

Hi
I was just wondering if it was possible to get the R&R on a non Lenovo computer ... for example.. on my dell. If it is possible could someone tell me how? Thanks!

Oddly the first thing I would recommend for you to do is make a backup of your system before proceeding.
Then download and install the appropriate R&R and its patches for your operating system. Win 7 uses 4.3 while Vista and Xp use version 4.21. You can find them and their patches here.
Remember backup first then test. Let us know how you go!

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Can't Uninstall Rescue and Recovery on my Lenovo 3000N100 laptop, using XP

Hi yesterday I tried to update to Rescue and Recovery 4.21, but didn't uninstall my previous version. However when I was trying to install the 4.21 it asked me if I want to replace this file with another and I said yes to all. When I did try to uninstall my old version it said installation source not available, try looking for Rescue and Recovery.msi . I tried that but same thing happened, so I deleted those .msi files, and now it says program program trying to use is on a network that is unavailable. I just want to uninstall it but I cant.
Before I even tried to update it, Rescue and Recovery wouldn't even open. It say the current version of Rescue and Rocovery on my computer is 3.01.1037.00. It also said last used was back in 06 and I know iv used and updated this program before that. Is there a way to uninstall this program without using the add/remove tool?? Is this fixable?
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The only chance to perform factory recovery is if you have Lenovo_Recovery partition with several .wim files on that. But it seems they are absent. So contact with Lenovo support in your country and purchase recovery disks.
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Hidden Partition for Rescue and Recovery suddenly appeared on My Computer

Hello to everyone viewing this forum. I'm from the Philippines, and this is my first time posting in the forums. I bought my Lenovo 3000 N100 Notebook from Singapore, and it's over a year old now.
Well, we all know that the built-in ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery program gives us a last resort when our laptops fail, and we all know that the hard drive partition where it resides is in a partition that is hidden, right? Well here's my problem..
I encountered a Windows problem which made me use a borrowed Windows operating system disk to repair it (via Windows startup repair), as although I have created recovery media already, I still want to back-up my data before that. Now after I have gone through the Windows Startup Repair service, and when I logged on, I was surprised to see the supposed to be hidden partition now appearing in My Computer! And as if that's not enough, when I try to boot Rescue and Recovery via the Lenovo Care button, it doesn't work anymore! Neither can I make Rescue and Recovery medium (Create Rescue Media on the Internal Hard drive) as it gives the following error:
"The Files required for creating the rescue media cannot be found."
And when I try to make Rescue Media on a CD/DVD:
"An internal error has caused this process to fail."
I would like to ask all you kind people here for your help with this issue.
I'm considering backing up all files I need via the Rescue and Recovery workspace, but since I can't access R&R I'm considering manually backing up the files I need via external storage devices, and my another question is that would my Product Recovery disks still work even though I can't access the R&R partition? This is my reserve plan in case I won't be able to fix the issue about the not-so-hidden partition, and I wouldn't want to lose my factory install reserves in that case...
Hope for your prompt reply!
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Urgent - Rescue and Recovery application affects CHKDSK function

I hope this is the correct Forum/spot to post this:
I have an IBM ThinkPad T23 with MS XP and SP2, with 640,MB of RAM.
Previously, when I had ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery application  loaded, I soon discovered it effected CHKDSK function, and would produce the following message during power up or Restart whenever I set CHKDSK to run:
Quote:
Checking File System on C:
The Type of File System is NTFS
Cannot open Volume for Direct Access
Windows has finished checking the disk...
End of Quote.
when in reality, no check disk has been performed by Windows.
Consequently, to avoid serious system problems, I had to uninstall ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery application. Immediately, CHKDSK function worked perfectly, which helped to prevent system errors and crashes previously occurring.
Hoping that by now, the bugs/problems with this application would have been fixed, I've reinstalled the application (V4.0) and upon testing, found I've immediately again lost the CHKDSK function.
To avoid problems, I'm going to have to again uninstall ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery application unless there is a patch/fix for this problem that I'm not aware of...if such a fix/patch exists, can someone direct me to it?
Thanks in advance for any guidance/assistance on this anomoly!

Based on Nick’s recommendation I used the Hitachi Data Fitness Test 4.13 to erase all of the file on the hard drive. The details of the installation are below:
1.    Download the Hitachi Data Fitness Test 4.13 from http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm (file dft32_v413_b00.iso) to another computer and created a bootable DVD using cdburn d: dft32_v413_b00.iso from the directory I downloaded it to.
2.    I started the T61 and put the Hitachi Data Fitness Test DVD in the DVD drive and turned off the T61 and restarted the T61. Note, the boot priority in the BIOS was set to ATAPI CD0:MATSHIAVDV-RAM.
3.    I ran both the Hitachi Data Fitness Test Quick Test and the Advanced Test. The drive past both. The I ran the Erase Disk. These took several hours to complete.
4.    After theErase Disk was complete, I rejected the Hitachi Data Fitness Test DVD and loaded the Rescue and Recovery CD from Lenovo () and restarted the system.
5.    ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery loaded and I selected “Restore” and then “Restore my hard drive to the orginal factory state” [Next] then “I do not want to save any files.” [Next], [Next], and following the loading of the Rescue and Recovery Supplement CD, and six Product Recovery CD for ThinkPad T61, R61 Type 6480, 7659, 7658, 7660, 7661, 6378, 6379, 6481, 7663, 7662, 7664, 7665, 6337, 1959) and finally Rescue and Recovery Supplement CD again.
Note there was a several minute wait after inserting the Rescue and Recovery Supplement CD for the second time and a system restart, for the Product Recovery to begin processing files.
6.    During the Window creation, I cancelled the use Login for the Administrator’s password.
I back up and running!
Thanks,
Marc

How to restore backed up files after I used Rescue and Recovery

Hi there lenovo community,
so I'm struggling to find a solution on how to open these files right here:
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First of all, the program I used to back up my hard drive was the Rescue and Recovery that my lenovo desktop came with. I used an external hard drive (WD My Passport, specifically) to back up my old hard drive. The problem that I'm facing right now is how I can open these files, they seem to be not working with any of the option programs the "open with" thingy offers me. If anyone knows an easy solution for this please please respond to me immediately.. I would really really appreciate it. I have important documents there.
Thanks,
Enrico
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Hello CP101, It seems this file extention is a priority file format.
Here is a link that has some information on how to resolve the issue.
I would suggest reading all the suggestions, as some have different methods for resolving this issue.
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Rescue And Recovery Trouble

Hi all,
New on this forum, it's my first post ; ) nobody's perfect !
I'm having a problem with Rescue and Recovery on some Lenovo Laptop, X200s, T61, T500...
The configuration of Rescue and Recovery (v4.10.0314) is set to make the backup on an external Usb Hard drive but, after a few month of use the c: drive appears to be full. The RRbackups folder use all the free space. How can it be possible as my backup is set on the External hdd?
If I check the backup files they all appears to be on the external HDD.
Many thanks for your help
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ok,
Still no solution for my problem but maybe a beginning of answer, In my Tvtsched.log I have the following command:
R2R.exe /cleanup
Does anyone know what is this command used for?
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Can't restore my system on new computer using rescue and recovery

Hi there,
Yesterday I got my Thinkpad Edge stolen from my apartment. I had been keeping backups of my system on external USB HDD using lenovo's rescue and recovery tool. Today I got a new Thinkpad edge and been runing the rescue and recovery tool but I am unable to see my backups. What can I do? How do I recover my info? Please HELP!
Jorge
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How awesome that you took the time to answer and that you knew the answer. THANK YOU! I called lenovo support and they told me that if I didn't see the backups they were gone for good...that I had probably not saved them properly in the first place. I went to 2 computer technicians who were charging me as much as $400 and weren't sure they could fix the problem. The key thing in your answer, was "click on the checkbox that lets you see all your backups"...I had missed that before.
So now I'm finished running a full system restore. However, now when I power up my machine it tells me that the operating system is missing. Is there anyway to fix that? My previous machine was a thinkpad edge 14, this one is a thinkpad edge e420...is that why is not recognizing the operating system? In the meantime, I'm again running the rescue and recovery software from a CD to copy the files in the restored local hard drive to an external location...hope that made sense.

Help with Lenovo Rescue and Recovery 4.31

Hello,
I work for a company that uses Ghost images for deploying laptops. We have recently decided to try the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery software built in with the new T520s when doing our local backup before sending the laptop out to the user.
What we decided to try is building the base image, creating the backup locally on the computer using R&R, dumping the image to our server using Ghost and then imaging other laptops with that image.
Our reasoning for creating the local backup first, is that time is not that big of an issue when creating the initial image, and neither is imaging other laptops because we create spares that we have built and ready to go out. What we would then do is apply any updates since the laptop was imaged, and have R&R create an incremental backup again, which would only take a few minutes and the laptop would be ready to ship.
Upon using this method, we have found that you cannot view the original first backup created in R&R on a laptop that it was not created with. The backup content is there, as the drive space is used and booting into a DOS prompt and browsing the C:\RRbackups\SZ\<UID>\ folder shows the data.
What I'm looking to know is how the R&R software generates that UID, and if anything can be done to allow the other laptops to recognize, whether it's rename the folder with a UID that the new laptop is going to use, or if it's something within the software files that's changable. Or even the registry.
Any ideas or suggestions would be great.
Thanks!

kylejg, welcome to the forum,
R&R is a little system specific. How many systems are you expecting to deploy using the method you describe?
It might be worth taking a look at the "Big Brother" of R&R namely Image Ultra Builder as it should be able to, with ease, realise exactly that which you are aiming for.
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T61 Lenovo Rescue and Recovery BSOD

Hi,
I've got a problem booting into the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery partition.
System is a T61 (64665DG) with Rescue and Recovery 4.21.1016.00
I receive the following BSOD message:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Technical information:
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D6528,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
It seems to be a problem with the AHCI controller not being supported. When I switch the SATA Controller Mode from AHCI to Compatibility in the BIOS it then successfully boots into the Rescue and Recovery environment.
Why is it missing the correct AHCI driver? It used to work fine with the older version of Rescue and Recovery in AHCI mode. Is there a fix available for the Rescue and Recovery software to allow you to run it without having to put the SATA controller in AHCI mode?
-Indie
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Thanks both for your replies. The inability for it to boot the Rescue and Recovery partition in AHCI mode persuaded me to examine the contents of the partition for anything obvious amiss. Using Linux I was able to mount the FAT partition and have a nose around. In the /minint/system32 directory it's got a number of sub-directories for the Intel Iastor driver - that used to access the HD in AHCI mode. I couldn't find any reference to that in txtsetup.sif and the winpeoem.sif file was empty. After some Googling I found out that you can easily load additional mass storage drivers using winpeoem.sif.
IBM have a program called rrutil.exe that allows you to access the RnR partition from within Windows, it's part of the Rescue and Recovery Administrator Tools.
To modify winpeoem.sif first install the RnR admin tools and open a command prompt window in the install location - C:\SWTOOLS\TOOLS\Z652_Admin016. Make sure the C:\Temp directory exists and is EMPTY - this is very important. You then need to create a "getlist.txt" file:
echo \minint\system32\winpeoem.sif > getlist.txt
retrieve the file from the RnR partition
rrutil.exe -g getlist.txt C:\Temp
type
notepad C:\Temp\minint\system32\winpeoem.sif
and paste in
[Version]
signature="$Windows NT$"
[OemDriverParams]
OemDriverRoot=""
OemDriverDirs=IASTOR
upload the changes with (this will write everything from Temp to the RnR partition!)
rrutil.exe -p C:\Temp
Or you could just modify /minint/system32/winpeoem.sif directly in Linux without messing about with the rrutil.exe.
With this small modification to winpeoem.sif I was able to successfully boot into the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery partition with AHCI mode enabled. I haven't tried reinstalling windows xp with this fix.
-Indie

How to reset password in Lenovo's Rescue and Recovery?

Hi all!
Here's my problem. Recently I have discovered that I have forgot my password for Lenovo's Rescue and Recovery. I've supposed that when I select "Protect your backups with a password" option, I could change my password for every new backup, whenever I remember my old password or not, but it seems not. So now I couldn't restore my previous backup and couldn't make a new one. Is there any option to reset the password?
Thanks and sorry for my English
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I don't think you will beable to restore to the backups without the PW I use a PW & I can backup without it but not restore
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Error 25014 when trying to install Lenovo Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery! Please help!

Hi there! I recently restored my laptop with a general copy of Windows 7 pro 64 bit. I had to redo all the drivers and software (of course). I had installed Rescue and Recovery before but had never used it. I tried to reinstall it today and it kicks back every time with the same error message (error 25014 code=6)! I had installed linux but deleted it and installed Windows again. I also have a 21gb partition not even being used ( i have no clue how to combine them). Any advice as to how to get it working will be appreciated! Thanks for your help in advance!
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Error 25014 rc=6 is error installing the RNR boot manager.
Provide some information:
(1)Did your machine ship from Lenovo, with Lenovo factory system? If so what operating system was installed? vista, windows 7 home, pro etc? This would install with 3 partitions: system_drv, Lenovo recovery, (C).
(2)you state: I recently restored my laptop with a general copy of Windows 7 pro 64 bit
Does this mean you DID not do a Lenovo factory restore, but actually installed a retail version of win7 pro?
I will assume win7 pro retail for now.
(3)you state: I had installed Rescue and Recovery before but had never used it.
Was this in the past, lets say, on a factory shipped Lenovo system?
(4)you state: had installed linux but deleted it and installed Windows again. I also have a 21gb partition not even being used
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It appears to me, your HDD had a system on it. I see Ubuntu mentioned in your other posts. Your HDD had multiple parttions on it, including the 21GB partition. Then you decided to install a retail version of windows 7 pro.
During a install of retail windows, you have to pay close attention as to where it will install.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
Note steps 7 and 8.
It appears you did the windows install ON TOP of existing HDD, with preexisting partitions.
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Rc=6
The simple answer is RNR is already installed. Did you uninstall RNR before the install?
The complex answer:
When RNR install went to add its entries to boot manager,BCD (boot control data), it did NOT like the contents of the BCD, ie other entries parked in the BCD,ie, Linux. It expects to have 2 BCD slots used, windows and windows RE.
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Give this some thought. See if it matches your situation.
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I would erase the HDD via a standalone utility, then install win 7 pro retail, and all issues should clear up.
This Erase/delete can be done during windows install. see steps 7 and 8 above.

Problem with the "lenovo Rescue And Recovery" system. (lenovo 3000 N500).

hi!
yesterday i ran Kaspersky virus scan tool and it detect file named "tvtfilter.sys" as suspicious file and thefore delet it.
today when i was restart my laptop, i got error message on startup that say:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! "C:\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\rrservice.exe" abnormal program termination.
after some google search i've understand that "tvtfilter.sys" was critical file of "Rescue And Recovery" system.
so, any one with "Rescue And Recovery" running on his laptop can upload for me this file?
it's located in "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DIRVERS\" and it's name is "tvtfilter.sys"
thank you!
BTW, ive tried to re-install it but it wont let me because of some error message

Hi eitrnel,
Just a thought: give a try to un-intsall the Rescue and Recovery from the Control Panel first before re-installing it.
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How to access another computer's backups with Rescue and Recovery

Hi all,
I'm in the middle of a disaster. It is a long story, but basically, here is what I need to do now:
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?
Here's what I've tried on the Lenovo PC to access the laptop's backups:
When I open Windows Explorer and go directly to the NAS, I can see the RRBackups folder and the directory structure, but all the files are like Data0, Data1, etc. So can't restore those.
When I open R+R on my PC and try to restore individual files from Network, nothing shows, as if there are no backups on the NAS.
When I press F11 and boot into R+R, I can see the Scheduled Backups on my NAS, but when I click on them to access individual files, they appear empty.
Thanks for your help.

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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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!!
now i can't access the Rescue and Recovery
my qustion is - can i some how restore the factory OS by Rescue and Recovery??
TNX
Tal,

The only other option, before calling service and ordering recovery disks, is to try the Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette. And yes, a floppy drive will be required.
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Lenovo rescue and recovery will not run a new backup

Tried several times to make a new backup using "rescue and recovery" (i've done this regularly over the years) .. But "rescue and recovery" freezes and then shuts the computer down. This has happened at least 4 times so far.
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1. What are the current and previous versions of R&R? When it was upgraded?
2. Did you have the such issue with previous R&R version?
3. Did you try to uninstall previous version and install the new one? Or reinstall the current version? How current vesrsion is upgraded from the previous one - manually or using System Update?
4. Was your OS version upgraded from previous one? I mean as an example XP -> W7
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