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    Creating Restore DVD's T400

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ZeNmAc, Jun 12, 2009.

  1. ZeNmAc

    ZeNmAc Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got my t400 and I was going to create restore dvd's to back up vista business 64.

    I went to the "Backup status and configuration" on the start menu. When I went through that wizard it said I will need 7 to 11 dvd's. To me this seems insane...shouldn't it fit on like 2? There are 3 partitions, "SERVICEV003 (806.7 MB used)", "SW_Preload (34.1GB used)", and "Lenovo (7.2 GB used)"

    Do I really need to back up the 34GB one? what is it? Sorry for my noobie question but I'm not sure which I need and which I don't.

    Thanks everyone!
     
    ZeNmAc, Jun 12, 2009
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Looks like you are looking at the backup in RnR which basically is for whole drive backup. To create recovery media. Go to Start->All programs->Thinkvantage->Create product recovery media. Alternatively, trying to open the lenovo(Q) partition will also direct you to the same place to burn recovery media.
     
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