Wipe and recovery

wipe and recovery. how

You can try doing a power recycle by pressing on the home button and sleep wake button simultaenously.
This will shut down the device you then may press on the sleep wake button to attempt to restart the device. This may or may not resolve the issue.
Good luck.

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I am having sporadic issues after new hard drive install and recovery using Time Machine. The same sluggish response, start up screen pixelating...If I reinstall Lion will it wipe out other applications? My HD was formatted and partitioned correctly, I ha

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Use the trackpad to scroll, thats what it was designed for. The scroll bars automatically disappear when not being used and will appear if you scroll up or down using the trackpad.
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Iphone 4 stuck in "recovery mode" how do i free it up without complete wipe and restore?

iphone 4 stuck in "recovery mode" how do i free it up without complete wipe and restore?

You can try doing a power recycle by pressing on the home button and sleep wake button simultaenously.
This will shut down the device you then may press on the sleep wake button to attempt to restart the device. This may or may not resolve the issue.
Good luck.

Wipe and reset macbook pro

I want to wipe and reset my macbook pro, how do I do that?
And I have purchased OS X lion on App Store, will I be able to download this again after it's wiped?

If I were you I would simply boot into your Lion Recovery partition (hold down the command and R keys whilst booting) erase your boot partition (usually named Macintosh HD), and the reinstall Lion. Note that you will probably need your Apple ID and password.
Your Recovery partition won't be erased, but th epartition that you actually 'see' will be erased and all of your apps, data, etc., will be erased and you'll have a clean operating system.
Clinton

How to install Rescue and Recovery CD to my T42

I ordered Rescue and Recovery CD to install my T42, and I got 8 CDs, one is independant, and other 7 CDs are for T42, so I just wonder how do install it, I mean use which CD, or which is used firstly, anyway, could someone tell me step-by-step to rescue my laptop.
Thanks a bunch.

Well, you should wipe the entire drive before using the recovery disks, including the original recovery partition if it's corrupted.
The disks will create a new recovery partition.
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How do i wipe and re install my imac

im trying to wipe and re install my imac any help appreciated i have no disc.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
If your iMac didn't come with DVDs, follow these steps:
1. Hold Command, Option (Alt) and R keys while your computer is starting to start in Internet Recovery. You may need to connect the iMac to a Wi-Fi network.
2. On the OS X Utilities window, open Disk Utility, select "Macintosh HD" on the sidebar, go to Erase tab and erase the disk.
3. Close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X.
This will reinstall the original OS X version that came with the iMac. If you want to reinstall the actual version, hold Command and R keys instead of Command, Option and R keys. The reinstall may take hours because the Mac has to download OS X from the App Store

Rescue and recovery wiped out my external hdd

I have a lenovo thinkpad edge 14 that I got a few months ago. for the last few weeks the thinkvantage toolbox kept telling me I had one 1 issue to solve, and that was to create a system backup. So finally I decided to get it taken care of, so I plugged my external HDD and got it going. After realizing how long it would actually take, I cancelled it midway. I didn't think much of it.
Then today I happened to look at my external hdd and I realized that EVERYTHING I HAD GOT WIPED OUT. I was devastated. Some things on there were priceless to me, photos/videos/memories I wanted to keep with me for the rest of my life. Seriously. It seriously hurts thinking about what I lost. I don't know what happened. I could have been smarter and made more backups to my backup? I guess I'm not technically saavy. I thought my external hdd was safe enough. What the hell?? Just because I tried to follow the Thinkvantage suggestion, RESCUE AND RECOVERY.... I got the exact opposite result.. How the hell was I supposed to know..
I'm trying to see if I can use some software to recover my data, but I haven't had much luck with programs I've used. What can I do? Is there anything that Lenovo can help me with? I feel like I just got screwed over. I wish I had never listened to the Lenovo software. I pretty much wish I had never gotten this laptop. I'm pretty pist off at Lenovo, I don't know if I should be or not, but I don't care, I'm just super upset and disappointed.

I don't blame you for being upset. That really bites.
It doesn't help you now, but IIRC, if you do a backup to external drive via R&R's advanced menu, there's a "preserve existing data" checkbox.
That "backup right now" nag launches R&R in a mode that first formats the external drive. Not only does it wipe the drive, it also takes a very long time.
[edit] It's the "create rescue media" part of the R&R process (that puts the bootable R&R on the external HD) that wipes the drive. The one-click backup combines that and actually writing the backup in one operation. Very convenient...
Sorry I don't have a way to retrieve your data. All I can offer is sympathy - I got burned this way myself. Fortunately in my case there wasn't much on the external HD.
I have no idea why Lenovo doesn't include a "preserve" option in the one-click backup thing. It's a serious oversight.
Hopefully your post will save someone else.
Good luck,
Z.
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I am so new to Mac. I just bought this Macbook Pro. No Disks or anything. I need to completely wipe and reinstall. Is there anyplace I can download the disks to burn to dvd to do a complete wipe and reinstall? I'm running 10.6.8. Or maybe a later version

I guess you can see how new i am to this, I typed my whole question in the subject. Any way, i bought this macbook pro used, no disks, need to do a complete wipe and reinstall. is there anywhere i can download the install disks to burn to dvd? Or buy either one, or maybe even a later version? Im running 10.6.8 currently. Thanks in Advance! Terry

First determine what system you really have.
Apple menu -> About This Mac.
If it is 10.7, you don't need installer discs, because there is a recovery partition:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
If indeed it is 10.6.something then you'll want to call AppleCare for the discs.
http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html
If they determine the machine is older than 10.6's initial release (August 28, 2009), you'll want to purchase 10.6 retail, and/or 10.7 retail from the Apple Store.
Regardless, backup your data first*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
And read the benefits of both 10.6 and 10.7:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2465
and determine which can run on your machine, and decide which you want to have.

Rescue and Recovery (4.2) Won't Run

I've a ThinkPad R61 with Vista Business SP1. I've patched the system with all patches from Windows and System Update (including the patch for RnR for Vista SP1). Despite this, I still can't get RnR to work in Windows. It's incredibly frustrating!
I've also found others having the same problem: http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=N_Series_Lenovo_3000&message.id=3240&query.id=30...
I've been doing a lot of research and I'm getting absolutely nowhere! I've already tried reinstalling RnR and I've also downloaded from System Update and from Lenovo's website! No luck!!
It does appear to be something to do with Vista SP1 specifically (despite Lenovo having released a patch for it).
I took a look in the RnR logs and found this line:
Fri Jul 04 00:36:48 2008 RescueRecovery: GUI Startup: Service not found.
If anyone has a solution please let it be known!!
Alan.

Discovered some additional information. Since the previous "fix", the space on my laptop's hard drive was slowly filling up... to the point where there was less than 200 MB left... then suddenly there would be 1 GB of space... 150 MB... back and forth.
When I uninstalled/reininstalled/uninstalled Rescue and Recovery (R&R) 4.2... I found afterwards that over 35 GB of space had "freed-up". I think what happened is that R&R 3.1 was constantly creating more "backups" and/or "partial failed backups" that were cluttering up my hard drive. When I uninstalled R&R 4.2 the second time, these backups were deleted.
If there is a program that can "wipe" any lingering remnants of the R&R program so I can do a clean install of R&R 4.2, the information would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again!
Sincerely, ThinkPadMan

Rescue and Recovery 4 and X31 HPA Restore Your Backups

Good morning!
Installed a new hard drive on my X31. I used a purchased set of official restore media to do a clean install of Windows XP with the HPA Predesktop Area in place.
Two weeks later all of my Windows and ThinkPad updates are complete and I am ready for a clean backup.
I installed Rescue and Recovery 4.23 and after a false start, I successfully made a backup to a USB Hard Drive that will boot into ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery. The Windows software seems to be fully functional.
On normal bootup, however, if I use F11 or the Access IBM button, I am taken to the original Predesktop HPA interface -- so the partition is really there. The Factory Restore appears to now be functioning if I ever wanted to use it.
My problem (or questions) relates to the "Restore Your Backups" icon. When I select it, I get the message: "IBM Rapid Restore PC is not installed. Press the enter key to reboot to Windows and install IBM Rapid Restore PC."
Therefore, that portion of the HPA is not accessible.
And, therefore, other than a factory restore, there is no way to run restore from the HPA.
So, here are my questions:
1. Is there anyway to put the Rescue and Recovery 4 predesktop area in this HPA?
2. If so, would it wipe out the Factory Restore option?
3. Should I have made at least one backup with "IBM Rapid Restore PC" before the "Rescue and Recovery 4" installer removed it?
4. Is there any space on the HPA I can recover?
5. Is there a tool or method to delete the "Restore Your Backups" icon if it is non-functional?
This may all seem not that important but I do care about this awesome X31 and I really would like to know how all of these competing technologies interface with each other.
Thanks for any help.,
Charlie

> ... it does not support X30 or X31, this could be part of the problem.
It also says that it *** may *** work on other systems. My experience is that if the IBM/Lenovo software supports the X32 (and RNR4 does), then it will work just fine on the X31 (example: Access Connections; exceptions: drivers that are specific to the very few hardware differences like CDC daughter cards -- Bluetooth).
The existing version was uninstalled and it was "way older" than what is covered in those special instructions (thanks, I did check it out -- no directory or utility present).
This is probably the end point for me -- good advice: "If that does not work, and if R&R under Windows works, you might create Recovery media and then boot from that if you want to restore from backups."
So, here is one new idea and one new confusion:
The last "official" RNR that supports the X31 was version 3.1 but it contains this somewhat cryptic (to me) caveat:
Consideration 12
computers that have a hidden protected area (HPA), also referred
to as PARTIES, and have the Rescue and Recovery program installed
will not be able to boot into either the PARTIES or Rescue and
Recovery workspace after recovering the original factory contents.
To enable the PARTIES area again, restore a backup using either the
Rescue and Recovery program in the Windows environment or by booting
from rescue media and then uninstall the Rescue and Recovery program.
My thought: Should I uninstall RNR4, install RNR3.1, and then upgrade to RNR4?
My confusion: There are apparently two types of predesktop areas: HPA and Type 12.
Do RNR3 and RNR4 only use Type 12? If so, can it coexist with the HPA, can it replace the HPA on its own, or do RNR3 and RNR4 not install the Type 12 space nor update the HPA if the installer finds an intact HPA?
To recap, what I have now is an HPA as it would have existed in 2004. I have a working RNR4 in Windows. The Access IBM button and F11 boot to the HPA. What I would like is an RNR4 predesktop area that can do a factory restore.
Any more help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Charlie

Use Rescue and Recovery to get back to factory settings?

Hi,
I want to restore my X220 laptop with Windows 7 to the factory settings. A while ago I got rid of a trojan and ended up losing some important DLL files, and I don't have a Windows restore point from before the trojan.
I clicked on the Lenovo Recovery (Q) drive. I then clicked "Create Recovery Media." However, I got the error Windows cannot find 'C:\. . . recovburncd.exe'. I read elsewhere in this forum that this means I should have created a recovery disk before I installed Windows.
I called the Lenovo technical support, and told them that I downloaded Rescue and Recovery and asked if I could access the Q drive through this software. I said I planned to "Create Rescue Media." They said this was the right way to do it.
So, I clicked on Create Rescue Media and used a DVD. However, when I looked at the contents of the DVD, I couldn't tell whether I had accessed the Q drive. What do I need to look for to verify that I have the correct content and am ready to reinstall Windows and the rest of the factory-origin software? Do I next use "Restore your system from a backup"? When I click "View all backups" there are no backups found because I haven't made any. Do I also need to use the "Backup your hard drive" tool? I can see the option to include the Q drive in the backup, but I cannot see a way to only backup Q.
My main concern is not to wipe the computer and then find out I don't have the right software ready to install because I use this computer for work everyday. I do have a backup system for all my files, so I will be ready to put those back on the computer after reinstalling Windows 7.
I appreciate your help.

If your factory shipped system was win 7, you should still have the recovery partition.
If your factory shipped system was Vista, and Install win 7 on top of it, you DO not have a recovery partition with 7 (it has vista). I dont think this is your case. RNR v 4.5 will NOT install if a vista recovery partition is present.
PF11 at boot up time, and go into RNR standalone. You should see an option for a Factory restore. You MIGHT have to go several layers into the RESTORE my system screen to find this option. You MIGHT find a factory restore option on the RNR windows platform (buried in a restore panel) , but I would l Not expect it. Boot into rnr standalone.
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The recovery burncd.exe is a misleading message. It probably should say YOU HAVE already taken a factory recovery backup(you can only do this one time After factory restore, you can do it again).. I will post a link to another post on how to fix this.
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CREATE rescue media is just a Standalone RNR. 1 DVD, no Q partition. It will boot up and act like standalone rnr(pf11). It will offer a factory restore option if it finds the Q partition.
Standard Take a back up now with RNR is just a backup of the C (and maybe q). You do not need to take this backup as your C drive is not in good shape. and Q is already available to use.
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Create Factory recovery is a backup set of 3 dvds to REstore the Q drive back onto a hard drive. After restore of Q it will start a factory install. Running the 3 dvds WILL erase the whole drive. DVD 1 is boot, 2 and 3 are data.
Rescue= backups of c
Recovery=Factory restore of Q partition.
In a couple of days, after you get your factory restore done, use the Create Factory Recovery set to DVD. takes 3 dvd. This can be used in 4 years to repopulate your HDD (q drive) after your current HDD fails due to hardware error.
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Link to several posts to reset the DONE.ini from 1 to 0 in Q partition.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/Problem-with-usb-recovery-media/m-p/1038829#M2...

I forget my rescue and recovery workspace logon in password...

Hi, anyone can help me with this??? I am using Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop. But i got a problem.
I wanted to reboot my laptop but when i was using my rescue and recovery, it suddenly prompt up a box, requested me to key in my window password. I tried all my password but the system deny it and it pop up a box, saying i never register with Client Security solutions and i need to key in the password to retrieve password or passphrase.
Please teach me what to do. Last time i reboot my computer, it was normal with no box prompt up requesting me for password and not sure starting from when my Client Security Solution don accept my window login password anymore.
What should i do when i forget my rescue and recovery workspace password?? Please help. Thanks

hum not much you can do, unless you wipe the whole harddrive clean and reinstall the whole OS.

Rescue and recovery workspace logon

my computer accused me of removing a file that i was unfamiliar with, and refused to start. i pushed the thinkvantage button, bringing me to rescue and recovery 3. when i try to log on it tells me i "do not have a password configured." nothing on the screen seems to lead to configuring this password. i'm not sure how to do it since i can't really access anything on the computer until i enter this password. i'm not very good with computers, obviously, so if anyone could put how to do this in layman's terms, i would much appreciate it.

hum not much you can do, unless you wipe the whole harddrive clean and reinstall the whole OS.

Restore and Recovery problem-XP reinstall

I have a N100 laptop that I am trying to reinstall XP operating system. I have the recovery discs. Started the process in the Rescue and Recovery menu. Part way into the process after putting in the first disc the process will go no further. Just to review how I got thru the menu. I chose option Restore my entire hard drive. then selected backup from CD/DVD. then I get a message: to restore from CD/DVD either insert final C disc or insert final discs of recovery discs. nothing happens when inserting the disc. also-when I restart the computer it always goes to the Rescue and Recovery menu. I can't get a normal Windows startup. Any suggestions of how to get at least to a normal Windows startup and avoid getting to the R and R menu or how to re-format the drive?

Hi dawcary,
I dug out my old x32 that has the recovery discs. The version of Recovery is the same as yours.
Booting from the R&R disc it eventually comes to the window with the two options that you describe, plus a third option to restore factory settings. Choosing to restore to factory settings wipes the drive and installs the predesktop. If you reboot at that point, it will go into the predesktop and that window will then only show the two choices that you listed above.
I don't know why yours doesn't show that third option.
At this point, it sounds like the predesktop is installed on your hard drive and nothing else. Rebooting might be bypassing the cd drive and booting into the predesktop. You probably already did this, but it's the only thing I can think of. Put your R&R disc in the cd drive and start the machine. Press F12 at startup and in the list of bootable devices that comes up, choose cd drive. That "should" give you the third option to restore to factory.
Dave
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Rescue and Recovery 4.2 Curious Behavior

I use R&R 4.2 to backup simultaneously to my HDD and to a USB HDD. When
a backup is completed I'm always told that my USB HDD is not bootable, and
asked if I want to make it so. It doesn't matter how I respond, because I am
always able to boot from it.
If I answer to make it bootable, one file fails to be copied after five tries:
Z:\Preboot\OPERA\OUSR600.DAT could not be copied, error 5=access is denied.
I've used Add or Remove Programs to repair the R&R installation with no benefit.
I'm curious why R&R thinks my USB HDD is not bootable (though it is), and why
this one file always fails to be copied (though it exists in E:\Preboot\OPERA with a
date-stamp of July 24, 2008 - a date on which I didn't make a backup - and the
permissions on it are the same as all other files in that folder).
Bob Stockler
G41 - 2886-5TU - Mobile Pentium 4 532 - 3.06 Gh
2 Gb RAM - 80 Gb Toshiba 5400rpm HDD - Win XP Pro

Discovered some additional information. Since the previous "fix", the space on my laptop's hard drive was slowly filling up... to the point where there was less than 200 MB left... then suddenly there would be 1 GB of space... 150 MB... back and forth.
When I uninstalled/reininstalled/uninstalled Rescue and Recovery (R&R) 4.2... I found afterwards that over 35 GB of space had "freed-up". I think what happened is that R&R 3.1 was constantly creating more "backups" and/or "partial failed backups" that were cluttering up my hard drive. When I uninstalled R&R 4.2 the second time, these backups were deleted.
If there is a program that can "wipe" any lingering remnants of the R&R program so I can do a clean install of R&R 4.2, the information would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again!
Sincerely, ThinkPadMan

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