It seems that it only extends the already installed MBR. The Windows MBR might have been overwritten by another bootloader. However, if you leave the type of the Rescue and Recovery partition to 0x12 Compaq diagnostics , trying to boot this partition will result in an error message "ca, Fatal System Error".
Also, as we will be hiding the Rescue and Recovery partition from Windows see below , we need to unhide the partition here to make sure it will be visible and bootable. You will find that while the above lets you launch the Rescue and Recovery application, trying to run the Hardware Diagnostics tool will fail, as it needs a "properly configured" original MBR.
Finally, as mentioned previously, the Rescue and Recovery partition should be hidden from Windows. This is to prevent any modifications being done to it, as they may damage the Rescue and Recovery software. This will leave the MBR untouched. The symptom is that you try to recover, but the recovery process ends immediately, and the computer tries to boot with GRUB.
The problem is that the one part of the disk that Product Recovery version 5. This clever procedure was originally applied to Ubuntu Dapper Drake, and is generalized here. Added warning: with this method, you cannot hibernate windows and boot anything else. The windows boot loader jumps on resuming windows before asking anything and you can already verify this right now, whatever your current configuration is. Boot Windows and make product recovery disks. You will see this step repeated throught this wiki for good reason.
The recovery disks can refresh your hard disk to its original factory state, getting you out of the trouble you might make in the next step. Other authors claim that it must not be moved. I did move it, and it works fine. Still, in retrospect I agree that the end of the disk is the best place for your Rescue and Recovery partition.
Push the ThinkVantage button during system boot, and verify that Rescue and Recovery still runs. Reboot into Windows to verify that the partition resize was successful. Begin your Linux installation.
Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery 3. Reviewer: hex4 - favorite - July 30, Subject: not working for me I have tried many times but always got error message. Booted from startup disc which seems to be corrupted but burned to CD successfully then when I choose "restore to factory defaults" or any other restore option I got error while coppying the PREboot files.
The Vintage Software Collection. If so, then I will be happy to go with a normal grub-in-MBR. FYI I have just come across this page on the IBM site: Recovery repair diskette , it seems to make it possible to restore the MBR to the factory installed status, namely it states " This package can also be used to reenable the F11 function as long as the service partition has not been removed from your hard drive.
It could be the lifesaver for heavy-testing moments, because based on my readings more or less the solution seemed to be to reinstall everything. I have not tried this yet, and I hope I will not need to, but since the system t43 is new I could invest some time in this I will keep you posted.
Only question Will it be ok to create the floppy on any other windows box? I have tested the Recovery repair diskette on my T43, which was not booting the Rescue and Recovery partition anymore. I have successfully created and used the disk with an USB floppy drive. Everything works now again the same way it used to when the laptop was shipped.
The tool on that floppy will offer two different major options:. Repair the current master boot record" and "2. Replace the current master boot record. The first option did not fix the problem with the Rescue and Recovery partition on my system. When selecting the second choice, there were three new "sub-options":. I just tested this on my T The starting point was that I hosed the original MBR by installing grub onto it. From Linux the Partition is fully accessible, so I have 3 theories what is the problem: - I have stopped the Thinkpad-System-Installation just at the point where it was going to convert the file system into NTFS did not let it reboot at this point , so the problem may have something to do, that the convert utility tampered the file-system - The partition shrinking did not work correctly, at least for Windows standards.
Another problem: After using Diagnostics, the setting of the active partition is changed in the partition table. So the next booting does not work, I have to manually reset it. Any hints? The actual version even resizes, when the partition is fragmented. That is important because the defragmenter within Windows does not defragment correctly.
So, I decided to preserve my current installation by dd'ing the old 40GB hard drive to the new GB one. Unfortunately, this led to a fragmented situation since, while I can move my Linux partitions no problem and ntfsresize can grow the NT partition, the rescue partition is smack in the middle of the drive at the 35GB mark.
It wasn't enough to make a new recovery partition at the end and dd the current one over because the format of the DOS boot sector depends on the size of the partition and the geometry of the disk. I suspect that using parted's move command would work as well and probably work with the original MBR as well since that would preserve the partition number. Cchiappa , 20 November CET. Can I still use the standard "system recovery" windows feature on my Z60?
I tried to, but I will always get a failure message and my system will stay as is after the recovery. The thing is that windows recovery makes a backup everytime I switch off the system, while RR requires a time-consuming manual backup. I currently have "rescue and recovery" installed. Does this have anything to do with the problem?
My drive went south so I have a new drive and just want to restore the files under My Documents, not the whole drive. When I do that on the new computer, I see the Documents and Settings folder but when I try to click on it, it says permission denied or something. I didn't restore it to the main C drive because I realized it would clash with the documents and settings folder already there, I restored it to a secondary D drive.
I bought a T23 which had Windows on a disk image snapshot, with one partition for the whole drive, so since I wanted to use multiple partitions I had to rebuild the whole drive from scratch. I bought one of the recovery CDs off Ebay, but apparently there are two of them; finally I found a bittorrent image of the second one.
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