Rescue and Recovery, Rapid Restore and pre-desktop area

Question

Hi.
I know RnR has been covered fairly extensively here, but I haven't been able to find a thread relating my specific problem so here goes...
I have an X31 with an IBM recovery disk set, now a few years old. I recently used the recovery disks to do a clean install then removed the majority of the old Thinkvantage utilities and replaced them with downloads of the latest versions. So far so good. The factory recovery from the CDs creates a pre-desktop area based on the old Rapid Restore software. This has to be uninstalled before installation of the newer Rescue and Recovery. RnR then works fine from both Windows and a Recovery CD I created.
However,  pressing the blue AccessIBM (i.e. Thinkvantage) button during startup still takes me to the old predesktop area. If I try to use the "restore backups" feature from here I am informed that Rapid Restore is not installed on the system. The "security" section of the BIOS contains a predesktop setting that can be either "normal", "disabled" or "secure". If I set it to "disabled" the blue AccessIBM button now takes me to the new Rescue and Recover workspace. However, some of the other options that were available in the old Rapid Restore pre-desktop, particularly access to PC doctor, are now not available.
Incidentally, the new Rescue and Recovery workspace seems to function independently of the original hidden partition associated with the Rapid Restore workspace - if I make this visible and delete it, I can still access Rescue and Recovery as long as the BIOS option is set to "Disabled". I presume, therefore, that RnR has created an additional hidden partition of its own? 
My question, therefore, is how can I rebuild the predesktop area based on Rescue and Recovery rather than Rapid Restore but still accessible by pressing the blue button at startup, still featuring the other diagnostic software and still having security settings controlled from the BIOS.
Grateful for any advice! 

Answer 1

Hi,
the basic and most importatnt information, in this case is, that RnR can detect/read backups that have been captured using the very same version as you are using right now.
So in case you captured your backup using version xx.xx.xxx1 you cannot restore, or recover your backup using the version xx.xx.xxx2. You need to us the very same version.
As Win7 uses different version of RnR, this is the root cause.
Hope this helps.
Cheers