Unable to boot into Rescue and Recovery environnement

Hi everyone!
I had my PC with windows XP factory installed. I migrated to Windows Vista. I didn't take the time to read the appropriate way to migrate and now I'm having big issues with all the ThinkVantage suite. So what I want to do is re-image my PC. I can see that the RnR partition (EISA Configuration partition is still there. (I've seen it in the Computer Management Console).
Now, when I press the ThinkVantage button when my pc Boots, it only gives me the choice to either go in the BIOS, or select the boot drive. Of course, the RnR partition doesn't appear in my list! I'm kind of stuck here. I went on lenonvo's website, and there is a tool that will create a recovery diskette, but my laptop doesn't have a diskette reader... plus the application is written in 16 bits... so there's no way I can read it under Windows Vista.
Anyone has an idea on how I could get my comptuer to boot into RnR so that I can re-image my pc?
Thanks!
Oli

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.
So in case there was no change made to the RnR partition, like relocation, or reinstall using the Vista RnR version, then you will not be able to boot into it.
So here is what I would advice you to do:
- reinstall, or download and install the Vista version of RnR (the latest version) => this will rewrite the partition table and in case of need it will create the RnR partition.
- 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:
bmgr32.exe /phil
==> this will bring you all the command line options and you can use it based on this.
NOTE:
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.
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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:
bmgr32.exe /phil
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Cheers

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Hello all,
I intended to write a backup via Thinkvantage R&R, startet from the boot menue. This fails as no target could be selected to save the backup.
After I talked to a colleague of mine, who told me to use R&R out of Windows (this way he made the initial backup) I reboot the machine via the button reboot in the top right corner. The machine rebootet but instead to start Windows Thinkvantage R&R was started again. No matter what I do, if I choose to boot from HDD Thinkvantage R&R will be started (if I choose to boot from USB od CD the system on the stick or CD will start).
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Maybe someone can tell me how to stop this circle.
Thank you in advance.
Dennis
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Hi,
sorry for this late response but I didn't test this earlier.
Thank you for the tip, this was the first step to solve this issue. After I changed the boot flag I was able to boot XP -- but only once. So I changed the boot flag again and I saw a notice about an unsuccessful and now pending backup job (this time I watched XP's boot process more closely . After I aborted the pending job I'm now able to boot into XP and R&R as I wish.
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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.
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RnR is not located in %programfiles%\ThinkVantage
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Google translation:
Hello ConiKost, about this issue, you though I can not solve - but to offer some advice: In the current version of RnR there seems to be a bug that blocks the backup as soon as you personal data into the corresponding folders (music, documents, places) . That means even if you have it installed, it is not functional. Postings on this subject already exist. My RnR yesterday I uninstalled again ... Have you ever seen you since the Win7 integrated backup solution? This is no longer compare with "ntbackup" too! :-) You can create system images - individually as well as protect your data. Try this way, I also found a long-suffering RnR - user :-) See you there just in time. Before a patch RnR is not usable at the moment anyway. Hope this cheers you up a little! :-) Regards
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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.
===
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

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