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    Recovery Disk Problem!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nolde05, Jul 30, 2008.

  1. nolde05

    nolde05 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I am in a pickle with my new hard drive and installing vista. I have a lenovo t61 and it came with a 80gb hd and i bought a 200gb hitachi hd at the same time. I wanted to install it right away. The problem was i needed to transfer the OS from the 80 to the 200. I tried doing a recover and rescue process by burning it onto 4 disks; that did not work. I would put in the first disk and it would load windows files and then go to the next step where i would select a language and have to insert the next dvd (the OS dvd). An error would come up saying "no service parition, restart process."---i know it should say partition but they misspelled it. So i contacted Lenovo and they sent me the recovery disks themselves. The same problem occurred. I do not know what i did wrong and i need this set before college.

    Thank you and help is greatly appreciated!

    Brandon
     
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    Dook Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you have an external 2.5 HD case you can just do a direct HD image from one to the other with Acronis. Thats what i do.
     
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    i do not have that so i do not know what to do...any other ideas...why arent the recovery disks working like they should?
     
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    "No service partition", is the HDD RAW, with unallocated space..!!

    It could be that it needs an NTFS or FAT32 formatted partition to install on....
     
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    i do not follow and thank you for the help by the way
     
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    I am a complete alien to lenovos, and I have never tried installing through recovery disks....!!
    But if your HDD is new, that means its RAW, and has no partition, and normally needs to be formatted to make it accessible....!!
    It could be that the recovery disks cannot be installed on a RAW HDD....or it may need some recovery files on the HDD itself..!!

    Why not do a clean install....?? its kinda nice to do clean installs on new HDDs.. :D
     
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    My hdd is new so it's raw. I am assuming by clean install you are regarding to using the actual Vista discs. I do not have those; lenovo does not send any disks.
     
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    Does your notebook have a License Key sticker on the base of the notebook..?? (or anywhere else)
     
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    It has one on the back from vista home premium
     
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    Does it have the license key printed on it..??
     
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    yes it does
     
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    If you don't want to wait, you could probably try one thing..!!

    Use a software called GParted, make 2 partitions and then try installing the rescue discs on them....I am not absolutely sure if it would work....but it won't cause no harm to try.. :D
     
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    I appreciate your effort here. I jsut found a problem. I went into bios utility menu and did a diagnostic test of my HDD; it could not read it. Whats wrong?
     
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    Does the HDD show up in the BIOS....

    Download Hitachi's Drive Fitness test from here (download cd-image)....burn it to a cd and boot from it with the new HDD installed and run a diagnostic on it..!!
     
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    Test results...

    It read the device but there were corrupted files...I ran a rewrite for the corrupted sector and it failed and said Defective Device, Component Failure.
     
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    Probably it has bad sectors....or some residue files left of from your previous attempts to install through the recovery discs..!!
    2 options -

    Download GParted and try to format the drive and create partitions and then run a diagnostic test....If it still gives errors, get the drive replaced..!!

    Or you can straight away get the drive replaced.. :D
     
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    Ill just get it replaced because i only have a few days left on the warranty. I thank you very much for your help!!!
     
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    Its Okay....
     
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