Rescue and Recovery PARTITION not accessible

Hi,
I just wanted to reset my Thinkpad R52 (1846-CG) back to factory settings and therefore attempted to enter the RnR partion. After I selected the appropriate option in the boot menu, I got the following error:
Inf file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 18.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
I googled this error message, but all I could find was help concerning Bart PE and windows installation from USB-drives.... However this isn't my Problem...
Can anyone please help me on fixing this?
Every Idea, hint and/or suggestion will be very much appriciated, THANK YOU !

Hi,
the file "txtsetup.sif" is a so called "load file". This means, that this file usually contains informations on the load process , when you are starting into a Windows Pre Desktop area. This file hase always his specific loaction and in your case, what the error message want to tell you is that this file is missing and therefore the system has no imput on how to load all the files and library files, so that it can load the GUI <Graphical user interface> so that you can use your mouse, etc.
So in this situation I assume following:
You get this message, when you start the system and press F11, or the blue ThinkVantage button and after a short while it just shows you this error.
So here is what I would do:
- if possible start into Windows
- start the repair Rescue and Recovery => this should trigger RnR to "recheck" if all the files and folders are on the correct loaction and should basicaly repair also this file.
Please note, that you must use the same RnR version, so that nothing will go wrong. I would advice to check localy on your system or user Add/Remove programs to reinstall RnR.
Let me know, how it went.
Unforatunatelly I have not experienced such situation with RnR, but I did experienced it during my multiple Image deployments, where I have used WINPE.
Cheers

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I have a thinkpad SL500 that I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 a week ago. I have tried to install Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery but get this error message during the initial install: "Rescue and Recovery does not support installing from the operating system which upgrade from legacy preload system."
I did load Win 7 32 bit from a legacy Vista preload system. I have been trying to install R&R v4.5. Is there a workaround to get ThinkVantage R&R on this Windows 7 machine? Thanks, John

Win 7 does come with it's RE environment. On my pc I can:
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All 3 have Bootable software on my C drive, and entries in the BCD (boot control data). Could you document what your pc/laptop was shipped with from Lenovo. An original windows vista or windows 7? A shipped Lenovo, with win 7,should have a Z partition and a X partition. One has the RNR standalone, the other has the Factory install data to reset back to OBE, out of the box experience.
Did you purchase a WIN 7 DVD upgrade disc from a retailer? Could you also post a screen shot from Disk management that shows the attributes of the D drive. I am trying to find out if the D drive is Active
Check under the status line, HEALTHY(Active,primary partition). Did you try the Diskpart command?.
You do not need to worry about SYSPREP. It is mainly an Administrator tool for deploying system images.
By the button, do you mean the Thinkvantage blue button? This just tells the BIOS to boot into the RNR standalone environment. My original system was a Vista. Thus I have no experience verifying the X and Z drives. This info is just from reading other posts.
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Hi,
first I would like to explain one thing, so that we are on the same page with the RnR partition.
Vista and XP are using different RnR partitions and the location of these aprtitions is placed on the HDD is different way, so that it can be used in conjuction with your Operating system.
So in the time, where you have used the XP and OS, the RnR partition was placed in the partition table on the end/back. DIrectly after you upgraded to the Vista and did not made any changes to the RnR partition, than it is still on the end/back, which is not the corect way. Becase the Vista should use the RnR partition, that should be placed on the begind/start/in the front of all the other partitions.
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- use bmgr32.exe , which is located on your HDD by default to rewrite the partition table. Please start it from command line in follwing way:
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Plase note, that once you captured some backups using the XP version of RnR , or a different version of RnR, then it's not possible to restor the backups using a different version.
Simple: you must use the exact same version of RnR for backup and also for the restore process.
Let me know, if you have any more informations to this situation.
Cheers

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Hi,
I'm using thinkpad edge 11 with win 7 home Premium 32 bit.
Before, i tried to restore to factory setting, there is a drive partition of rescue and recovery in my thinkpad.
But, when I was trying to restore to factory setting, I missed the steps and made the drive partition of rescue and recovery formatted.
So, now, I don't have it again in my thinkpad.
Then, after that, appeared another drive partition in my thinkpad with name S: Sytem, beside C: WIndow7 and D: Data.
So, I need the solution from you all as knowing more about thinkpad edge in this forum.
1. How I remove the unkwon drive, S: System from my thinkpad?
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Hello mate,
To restore the Q: partition you have to use the Lenovo Recovery Discs. Hope you burn them before erasing the partition, otherwise you have to order them from Lenovo.
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There is a previous message with the same title but, it is marked solved. The solution does not work for my machine.
My ThinkPad T2300 (0768 -2UU) has crashed.
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- I assume it is Version 3.
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- Check box: "I forgot my Windows Password" It is grayed out!
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If I change to another id: Administrator, John etc. I get the following message. "The user has not been enrolled with the Client Security Solution. Only enrolled users may log on or recover their password/passphrase."
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Hi,
based on the informations, that you provided, this looks, like if the RnR partition was configured as secure for your CSS application.
So here are the steps, on how to get rid of the password request:
- start into OS
- open CSS
- go to Advanced-> Manager security policies
- in this new window you will see on the left side the option "Log on to Rescue and Recovery". Please select it and on the right site you can choose the correct option, that you want to user. Or just dissable it.
Your situation is, that you, or someone have protected the RnR partition with the CSS security policy. The command, that you noticed, that is not for this purpose, because there are multiple ways on how to set a password into RnR partition:
1) useind RnR => this is the option, where the command "pe_masterpw_app.exe -remove" would help
2) using BIOS => this was only by older systems
3) using CSS => this is the situaiton, that you see. The main hint is the domain field, which can be only comming from CSS
Let me know, if this helps.
Cheers

Rescue and Recovery will not open

I wanted to back up my system to an external hard drive after finding out that it hasn't been backed up in over 200 days even though when prompted periodically , I select the option to "back up now." However, it seems that neved did back up. When I tried to run Rescue and Recovery (4.21) from Start - All Programs - ThinkVantage - Rescue and Recovery, nothing happenend. I restarted my computer and this message came up when it rebooted :
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I do not recall 100% but I think I got a very similar error message, only worst situation. I had to replace HDD because the original HDD crashed. I installed a new HDD and when I went to re-store with the ORGINAL IBM LENOVO RnR + Product CD's, 7 in all, I got something like you got. I called Lenovo and someone in the service department told me that because my T60 was out of warrantly I needed to buy a new set of CD's ! Interesting hey, I told him that the Original CD's that came with the T60 had corrupted files and this from day 1. Anyway, long story short NO WIN XP as of yet. Good thing there is UBUNTU Linux. Good luck with issue.
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Hi, I have an R61i, which was working great until my son switched it off without shutting down windows properly. Now I have registry corruption on my main Windows partion (MUP.SYS hang).
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Hey,
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Hey,
I have recently purchased a refurbised IBM ThinkPad T40 2373-82M laptop computer. When I received the computer it did not have any recovery partition or recovery CD's that came with it. I then installed my own personal copy of Windows XP Service Pack 2 on the machine and installed drivers and applications individually by downloading them off the Lenovo support website. However, I have attempted to install the latest version of the ThinkVantage Rescue And Recovery Program (Version 4.20) on my computer but I end up with the following error: 'There is not enough free space on the computer to install or upgrade the Rescue and Recovery environment'. When I did a full clean install on the system I deleted all partitions that were on the computer at the time during the Windows XP installation and made a single NTFS partition. There were two 20GB partitions on the hard drive when I bought it, but neither of them were the IBM Rescue and Recovery partition. Could it be possible for me to install this software on my laptop, and make a Rescue and Recovery partition, now and make it the same way it would of been when it left the IBM factory?
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