RESCUE & RECOVERY HELP

Hi,
I need help with my Lenovo X200 and Rescue & Recovery. When I go to My Computer, whenever I used to click on the Q: or S: partitions, I would get a warning message pop-up telling me to not change anything. These warnings do not pop-up anymore, and I want them back so that nobody accidently changes anything in there.
I suspect this change happened when I tried to create a backup. When I was in the process of creating a backup, my computer locked up and so I had to force quit and restart. The next few times I tried to run R&R it wouldn't launch, so, I uninstalled it then I reinstalled it. It works fine now, but those pop-ups don't come up. Anyone have an idea to get those back? Also, because the backup was stopped halfway... did it just get deleted? R&R says it cannot find any backups, but can I be sure that there really isn't some incomplete backup floating around that I can delete?
Thank you. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Message Edited by dsp4 on 12-28-2008 01:18 PM
Message Edited by dsp4 on 12-28-2008 01:19 PM

[edit] Forgot my manners... hello and welcome!
If you really want to restore to factory state, why not use the disk(s) that Lenovo sent you?
Z.
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Well, hello to everyone.
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wmarkw, welcome to the forum,
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URGENT Rescue & Recovery "Previous Version" Error.

I am resending my post as I experienced the Explorer 9 incompatibility problem.
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1.
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Hey guys,
I just love my Lenovo X61s...
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Well, now I know, thanks. All this is because the machine has become slow and unstable. I have tried various magic tools that are supposed to spruce it up (AVG and Uniblue) but I experience nothing but frustration. Do you have any suggestions short of restoring the drive? Maybe uninstall all programs from control panel and install fresh ones? I am using a spare X61s running XP at the moment, feels like Formula 1.
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