T61 - Rescue and Recovery - USB Drive issues

Ran into disk space issues with RnR on my C: since I was not manually using RnR and have other back-up tools, I uninstalled RnR. A few weeks later, I re-installed the latest RnR version as I now have possesion on a USB Western Digital drive. I then ran RnR to the USB drive. Here is the problem:
The USB drive now has a new drive name and letter desigation, from drive G: to drive Y: The real killer is that I had other files on drive G:
Looking at the drive size, it appears that ALL files are still on the USB drive.
Question: How do I get the drive to be recognized as drive G:? How do I get access to the files that were on that drive? Would un-installing RnR set the drive back to C: and provide access to my files?
Note: There was no warnings during the back-up that any of this would happen. I can't find any warnings or descriptions in the manuals either.

Question: How do I get the drive to be recognized as drive G:? How do I get access to the files that were on that drive? Would un-installing RnR set the drive back to C: and provide access to my files?
Vista - start - computer - right click - manage - (if uac on, accept) - disk management - select the disk- right click and you are given the oportunity to change the drive map (i don't know if that helps)
http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/207130-external-usb-floppy-change-drive-letter-b.html
http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/198291-drive-letters-taking-control.html
hope that helps

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Rescue and Recovery -- USB external hard drive

Can anyone recommend the best external hard drive to use for Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery? I've been doing some research and I'm concerned about the Maxtor "one touch" software. If I choose to purchase a Maxtor external hard drive should I go in and delete any software on the drive before I back up from Rescue and Recovery? I have been having a lot of problems with Rescue and Recovery -- it's difficult to delete past backups, and I get hangups. But eventually it usually backs up. I have read reviews for the Maxtor one touch software and it sounds like it doesn't work well for restoring an entire system (problems with certain files, such as hidden files, etc.). But maybe that's not true? Also, do you recommend that I delete all previous backups before running a Rescue and Recovery backup? If not, if I ever had to restore from it, would it automatically use the most current backup?
Thanks in advance for any advice! I'm a novice, but I want to make sure that everything is backed up properly.

Herik,
I'm not sure I'm looking in the right place - the folders you specified don't exist, or they aren't where you indicated. I can only get to "Rescue and Recovery" in the HK - Local Machine registry folder - nothing further there. Here's what I have:
http://files.iclippy.com/109436/1251279402.jpg
Am I looking in the right place?
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Possible to create a rescue and recovery USB disk?

When you create rescue and recovery media, there's an option showing "USB hard disk drive". However, the target drive list is always empty. How could I get it work? I have plugged my usb-hard disk to my laptop (T400).
BTW, it's possible to create the recovery disk using my usb key?

Probably a good question for ForumNokia. If you mean start up a thread and run in the background while your MIDlet UI does other things, then sure, why not. If you mean that you want to exit your MIDlet, but leave a thread running in the background, then I don't believe you can do this on series 40. S60 is another story since it supports multiple tasks.

Rescue and recovery files prompt issues

Hi all, I want to ask if there is a method to config rescue and recovery so it will automatically skip/retry files when it ran into trouble backing up?
At the moment R & R prompt me every time it tries to backup a file and failed. It gives me option to skip or retry backing up, that is fine with me other than the fact that I run my backup mostly at night expecting to have it done when I wake up so I can take my laptop to work. Now most of the times I have to cancel it when I woke up (because it is still at 2% or something) and I just do not have time to sit and go through all the prompts it has.
I have search the forum and there was a similar post last year when someone suggest to keep all those files in exclude list. This might work given time but it will takes me hours to sit through all the prompts and copy all the files names manually before I can try this solution. I wonder if there is a configuration file somewhere where I can instruct R & R to automatically skip/retry in this situation?
Thanks!

The school probably loaded a custom opertaing system image which most likely does not include the restore partition.
You will need to find a set of recovery discs if you want a factory image. Alternatively, You can load plain windows if you find an OEM install cd and use the product key number on the COA sticker located on the bottom of your Thinkpad. The drivers download from here.
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IMac and Formatting USB Drive Issues

I have an 8GB USB drive that I formatted to MS-DOS FAT using my iMac with 10.6.4 on it. However I now realise that that was a stupid thing to do as now that drive no longer works on Windows no matter what I format it too. I want the pen to allow me to use it on both WIndows and Mac (hence the FAT format) however Windows sees the drive as an unformatted 200MB drive with 7.16GB of unallocated and corrupted space which cannot be formatted.
Windows cannot even attempt to allow me to format it to gain the 8GB back as it is unable to format the space even when its turned into free (empty) space. Luckily OSx can still use it as normal but it just means I've lost a perfectly work USB drive due to an error in OSx.
Can anyone help to to fix this as I really want it to work and I'm stumped as to how.
Thanks!

It shouldn't matter as I created the files and folders originally on a FAT formatted drive and copied them to my Mac then back at a later date, at which point an error was encountered and prevented me copying folders to the dive (the contents was fine once removed from folders and sub folders).
I believe Apple has fixed this now, however when I formatted the drive my iMac had this problem so I believe this effected the FAT formatted drive to prevent Windows working with it.
Well I have finally managed to fix the drive. I had to format the drive to free space and then plug it into a Windows 7 PC and then delete the free partition and reallocate it again to FAT 32. Window Vista and XP where an able to do this as they say I didn't have permission to do this and asked for a restart. Strange but atleast it finally works on both machines.

T61 Rescue and Recovery - system restore has no restore points

Hello
I just got a T61 with Vista basic, I made some restore points in Vista but in ThinkVantage, system restore there is no restore points in the "Main hard disk" area.
I also have updated using ThinkVantage system update, all the crucial items.
Is there any way to solve this?
thanks in advance.
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still having the issue, I also cannot create a recovery media using ThinkVantage "Create Recovery Media" option, I have no selections in my "Target Drive" area.
any ideas why?

Issues with a T61 harddisk, UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME, cannot also get in the Rescue and Recovery

Dear Lenovo Support Community,
I have a T61 with XP pro on it. This is the history of my harddisk problems with it:
(the harddisk is HDD0 Fujitsu MHW21160BJ G1 and everything in laptop (HW and SW) are same as the factory sold one)
1. Unfortunately I had not made any recovery cd/dvd when the computer was healthy
2. Some time ago, after a crash, and during the chkdsk in the following boot up, harddisk showed 12kb bad sector
3. Due to more crashes and not being able to login once, went to rescue & recovery and only recovered OS to an old and healthy state. Kept my data, lost all the new programs installed but got the OS fine and running. --> I guess the bad thing that may have happened is that recovered OS may have used those bad sectors as well, but this is just a guess.
4. Problems, slow downs, the 12kb bad sector, issues kept coming back every couple or few weeks. Repeated the rescue and recovery OS installations another two times.
5. Few days ago, all was good, but needed to restart, but this time a blue screen came up with UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. This screen comes up even if I try to go into safe mode, with networking, or even with only DOS prompt.
6. Tried to go to rescue and recovery (version 4), it took a really long time and was telling me that something wrong with the file \minit\setupapi.log and after a long long time that it got in the page for rescue and recovery, it was not doing anything by clicking on any of the buttons.
7. Took the hard out, connected it through an external enclosure to another computer, the main drive could not be read at all, I/O error, not distinguishable.
8. But the SERVICE drive was understood and I could even run chkdsk /F F:\ on it and it repaired the file mentioned above (\minit\setupapi.log).
9. Put the hard back into T61, went to rescue & recovery, this time the error on the file was not showing up, but since the step #8, I have not been able to get pass the initial screen of rescue & recovery. It doesn't go in at all.
10. Found it through Google search, the famous post on this forum about fixing the Master Boot Record. Got the little program, burned on a CD, went through all of its steps, finished as described in the famous thread, but I am not sure if it has been any help to me so far.
11. In few other occasions, connected the hard through the external enclosure to another computer and found online and used programs like Disk Doctors Windows Recovery Data and EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard and was able to just read inside both NTFS main disk and FAT32 service disk (windows can also read the service disk but cannot read the main disk). Using the free version of EASEUS, I could even read and save my personal data since my last backup, so I am good to even format the T61 hard but still I don't want to give up on that.
12. While the lenovo harddisk is in it, in a restart went to BIOS (F1) and ran the harddisk diagnosis, It said: "Pass: Controller Diag, Error code 0000: Read verification failed". And after the "Test complete", it gave a red message in the middle of screen that "<<< An error was found. Call for service >>>"
13. As mentioned in #1, I don't have Lenovo's recovery Windows XP CD(s) for T61, but I have some other windows xp installation CD's, I thought I can put them in CD drive, boot up from CD, and try to recover or repair the windows, It seems that they tell me there is no harddisk in your computer!! When I press "R" to go to recovery console, it tells me: "Setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer."
My questions for dear members of this forum are:
1. Can I recover my T61 harddisk with the above description? It is being read nicely with the recovery programs, so it should have not been damaged seriously. Please guide me to other things that I can try?
2. I can see and read the Service part of the drive from Windows (no recovery program needed) while connecting the drive through external enclosure to another computer. Can I run a program from the Service part of disk and make those T61 Recovery CD and DVD?
3. If I purchase the Recovery CD(s) from Lenovo, would they be doing any magic or help in my case described above?
4. Can I make recovery CD(s) from another T61 laptop and use them for mine?
Thanks all for reading my long post and helping me. God Bless.
Best Regards,
AL_K

Step One: Install windows
Step Two: run system update
Step Three: Your done (optionally have a beer and relax)
Sorry, step three was a bit of humor I added.
Actually these recovery CDs were produced before the first T61 was made, probably in 2006. The T61 line was replaced in 2008.
You can activate with the code on your COA, I've done it many times, just make sure you do a full (new) installation, not an upgrade, from an oem disc.
If you do end up using the original product recovery disc set, your steps are more like this...
1. Install disc one... wait 30-60mins
2. Install disc two... wait 30-60mins
3. Install disc three... wait 30-60mins
4. Install disc four... wait 30-60mins
5. Install disc five... wait 30-60mins
6. Install disc six... wait 30-60mins
7. Install disc seven... wait 30-60mins
8. Install disc eight... wait 30-60mins
9. download latest service pack for windows and install (over an hour)
10. Install (replace old version) system update and run.
11. go to windows update and update several years worth of patches and hotfixes. (1-4 hours)
12. kick back and have a warm beer and cold pizza, if there is any left after I finished hours ago and celibrated already.
Also, after going through all that, you've not only installed windows, then replaced nearly the entire operating system, but you've also used valuable harddisc space to make several redundant copies of the outdated files, drivers and apps.
Please understand, I'm not saying the recovery discs are a bad design, they work great, and back in 2006-7-8-9 I'd happily go through all that work, but today all the stuff on them is to old so it's futile to go through all that. It would be really nice if Lenovo updated the install discs, and we could download the latest version to use, but they basically just leave them untouched after the model line is released, so nothing on that disc is newer then about 2006.
I'll also add that both George and I have done this well over 100 times each, so we wouldn't be suggesting this if it wasn't the best option, but in the end you'll have a working system no matter which route you take to get there, so the only question to ask yourself is...
Do you like your beer cold and your pizza hot
Good luck, and enjoy your endeavours
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Rescue and Recovery 4.3 on Win7 doesn't see a backup on external USB hard drive - Model W510

I've run the Rescue and Recovery utility within Windows 7 on two different external USB hard drives thinking that maybe it was a usb drive issue. When I open the R And R utility in expert mode I can see that both backups exist on their respective drives. I planned on updating my hard drive so I made a full hd backup and the R&R startup disc to boot the laptop from. The bios recognizes either external hard drive at boot with no problems. It shows the names and "+" sign next to drives. So I booted the drive at startup off the DVD drive with the R&R startup disc after I was sure that the bios recognized either external drives. Then when I choose a "Full" restore is of course asks me if I want to use hd, cd/dvd, or external usb drive which I choose the later. It then should show me the backup that I created earlier just as it did when I ran the utility from the Win7 environment so I can choose it to restore from. But I get a blank box showing no backups when I run the 4.3 R&R Startup disc. Again if I boot to Win7 and go into the R&R utility I can see the backup on the exact same USB external drive. Then boot off the CD startup recovery disc and it shows NO BACKUP! Help please! I want to shelf my old hard drive "as is" and create the Restore onto the new hard drive but the utility isn't working for me.
Thanks for any help.

Hmmm,
Seems like that _should_ work. Here's a way you might be able to finesse it: go to the advanced R&R menu in Win 7 and create rescue media on your USB drive. It's essentially the same process as creating the CD - it makes the USB drive bootable and puts a copy of R&R there.
There _should_ be an option to "preserve existing data" but be prepared to lose your existing backup and make it again.
Then just boot the external USB drive and see if R&R recognizes a backup image on the same drive from which you booted.
That's the way I usually migrate to new drives. Maybe it will get around your mysterious problem.
Z.
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Rescue and Recovery 4.5: Boot Environment does not list Backups on USB Drive

Hello,
I have a fresh installed Windows 7 on a X 230 and am now setting up my backup. The notebook came without an OS so I installed Win7, all drivers and the Thinkvantage Software myself. Then I made a backup with Rescue and Recovery 4.5 to an external USB 3.0 HDD. The Backup is listed in the Windows program, but when I boot to Rescue and Recovery, the backup is not listed.
Since there arent any options I could change during the backup or the recovery, I have no idea what went wrong..
Thanks!

In the standalone boot of RNR, go to the advanced GUI, chose Restore. After a few screens, you will see a restore from location, default is Local Hard drive. This is a drop down list. USB option is available in the drop down list. The USB must be connected during the standalone boot. If the backup is NOT the same UUID as your system, check the box that says show backups from all systems.
Also read my post dated Nov 22,2011 . RNR backup reverts to local. This may not apply to USB backups.

Rescue and Recovery Not Finding Backups On USB Drive During Restore

Currently running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on a W510. Rescue and Recovery cannot find my backups on the USB drive when trying to restore. They can be seen when not in restore mode. There are two partitions on the USB drive. The second contains the backups. I also tried plugging the drive into a server to access it as a network drive with the same result. R&R version 4.30.0025.00. I do not believe it has changed since I started the backups.
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Just a think, I'm pretty sure is about your version of R&R. Just between R&R4.30 and 4.31 is not compatible.
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Rescue and Recovery 4.5. Rescue media can't boot from FAT32 64GB flash drive.

T530 Windows 7. I did a full (base) backup to a 64GB USB flash drive formatted FAT32. R&R started by indicating “Rescue and Recovery Medium being created” and after a few hours finished the backup. When I click on ‘View all backups’ I can see the backup created. I then tested the flash drive to see if it’s bootable but the screen only shows rapidly moving white font gibberish over black background. I did the same as a test on a 8GB USB flash drive formatted NTFS (I had to stop the backup since 8GB was not enough space) but had no trouble booting from it. Both flash drives have the folders: boot, efi, Preboot, RRbackups, tvtos and files: bootmgr, bootmgr.efi, fcopy.ini. In other words, the only difference seems to be that it works with 8GB NTFS but not with 64GB FAT32. Is that the issue or just coincidence?
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The readme file for RNR 4.5.1 states:
Consideration 7
Unable to boot from a 64 GB USB memory key
When you create rescue media on a 64 GB USB memory key and then boot your computer from the memory
key, an error message is displayed, saying, ?¡ãError loading Operating System.?¡À
To solve the problem, change the 64 GB USB memory key to one with less storage capacity.
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The question is.. is your Flash USB a memory key?
I would reformat the 64GB to NTFS, then run the Create Rescue Media option onto it. Then try to boot the USB.
There is another post out here stating on certain USB sticks, you have to PREFORMAT it, using diskpart command, before using the Create Rescue Media option..
This link might help:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-74246

T61 upgraded to Windows 7, now can't install Rescue and Recovery or Bios update.

I have a T61 6459 CTO that had XP SP3 on it. I upgraded to WIndows 7. I tried to install TVTVRNR450_025en, but I get an error msg "Rescue and Recovery does not support installing from the Operating System which upgrade from a legacy pre-load system." I tried deleting all old RNR and CSS programs in the old files after the install, but nothing seems to work. There is nothing listed in my add/remove programs. My Thinkvantage button doesn't work. How do I remove the old RNR? Should I have done that prior to installing Windows 7? Do I need to re-install my XP backup and start over? My Bios update extracts, but doesn't install. Help!

Hi, FSURN82
I did some research and was able to find this thread from Lenovo Forums. There are a few other people having similar issues. For some, installing an older version of Rescue and Recovery (sometimes even the one for their OS before the upgrade) would work fine. For some, however, they could not get it to work, so they would create backups manually using Windows.
As for the BIOS issue, what version are you currently running and to what version are you trying to upgrade?
Thanks,
Adam
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How to make the RESCUE AND RECOVERY hidden partition when changing the hard disk drive

I've got T61 and I'd like to know if is it possible (in case of changing the HDD) to make the RESCUE AND RECOVERY hidden partition on the new hard disk drive? If yes - please let me know how to do that.

hi you the rescue partition is made automatically when you use your recovery cd's on the new HDD so no problem there!
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Rescue and Recovery Issues!

Hello All,
I purchased a T60p about a year and a half ago along with the 3yr. extended warranty. I have been trying to recover a saved backup on my hard disk since I have had some problems with Windows but have run into a serious problem. I have tried to restore from rescue and recovery but keep getting a password entry dialog box. I didn't set one up since I've owned the computer and this is confirmed by the dialog box that states for me to set one up and try again. I even tryed to use the "forgot password" option and it still sends me around in circles for a password entry. I have contacted customer service several times and got a set of rescue and recovery discs to set it up to factory state but the password thing still comes up on bootup even from the CD. The last suggestion from customer service was to purchase a SATA drive-to-USB cable to back up the data to another computer. But other than seeing the contents of the drive directories I cannot back it up (probably a protected partition). I am at a loss here and was wondering if anyone could help.
The files on this hard drive are vital for me to recover as they contain lots of personal pictures of family (some now gone), CAD work, as well as other irreplaceable info.
Can anyone suggest a course of action? Is there a service that can retrieve the data? I have no problem reloading the applications I just need the data files.
Couple of questions:
Why can't I reinstall Windows from the discs sent to me from Lenovo (only the R&R disc is bootable)?
Can I reinstall Windows on the drive without loosing the data on the R & R partition?
Please Help!
Nemo
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Hi Nemo,
My questions may be totally irrelevant, but I'm going to ask them anyway. Just in case.
Some versions of R&R, when launched, would ask if you want to set a password or protect the backups with your windows password. As you don't mention having tried your windows log-in password, if you have / had one, have you tried using it or, if set up, the default admin account password?
Also what about the good old enter key i.e. no password, or trying "admin"?
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Rescue and Recovery not recognizing USB DVD writer on X200

I have a SAMSUNG SE-S084B USB CD/DVDRW that reads/burns DVD-R ok in ImgBurn. I already have backup made on the hard drive by RR.
I tried to use the Rescue and Recovery Advanced mode -> menu-Advanced -> "Copy backup from hard drives" to make a set up of backup on the DVD-Rs. However, RR doesn't recognize my USB DVD writer, and therefore I cannot proceed the backup.
Please advise how to make backups on a DVD for Thinkpad X200. Thanks a lot!

I got it!
You just need to be patient. It can take up to two hours.
I wasted about 30 minutes in the fine quality customer support of inner-city Atlanta just to be told it takes that long. 30 minutes.
I am extremely unimpressed with Atlanta customer service, and the rep's advice after 25 minutes was that he was going to send me a couple more recovery disks! He had no idea about anything I was talking about. I complained to the manager who finally told me to just wait. However when I complained to him he thought it was a joke.
Customer service in Lenovo, especially their Atlanta location is a farce. You're welcome for me having to sit through that.

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