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    Can't start R&R from boot

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ColMaki, Oct 22, 2007.

  1. ColMaki

    ColMaki Notebook Consultant

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    I've got a T61 and I've made another partition on the hard drive in addition to the original one. later one I've deleted this new partition.

    Somehow in the process I think that something in the boot records went wrong and I can't boot into the Rescue & Recovery partition and get a "cannot find operating system" error. I can boot into C partition and activate Vista.

    When I've tried to create rescue DVD from within Thinkvantage, I got an error: "cannot locate the files needed to create the disc".

    I've searched from the guides in the forum about clean install, but that can't help since I need to restore the laptop to it's factory shape.

    The R&R partition exists and hasn't been deleted. Is there a way to boot manually from this partition and try to restore the entire computer from there?

    Any ideas?
     
    ColMaki, Oct 22, 2007
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