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    Creating recovery media for x200

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by skn2405, Jul 25, 2009.

  1. skn2405

    skn2405 Newbie

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    Hello Members

    I've bought an X200 and am loving it. I wanted to create recovery disks of my x200. However, im a little confused because, there seem to be 3 options :

    1. Create recovery media
    2. create product recovery media
    3. Rescue and recovery (this i figured out is the restore option )

    I tried option 1 and ended up creating a start recovery disk
    option 2 created a rescue and recovery startup disk.
    Can anyone clarify the difference between option 1 and 2 ?
    Is this all I need interms of recovery media or am i missing something here ?

    Thanks for your help!
    skn
     
  2. menos

    menos Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    I have X200s and Vista Business 32.
    The application trio you mentioned is designed to allow copying (literary) a disk content (including system, partitions, data, and applications) to a new one.

    I have just managed a successful and seamless transition from 160GB HDD to 256GB SSD with these tools.

    I used CRM to create a startup disk on an external USB HDD (just an ordinary disk).
    Then. I used R'n'R to backup the whole old disk there.
    Then, I replaced internal HDD with the new (right from the box) SSD, and rebooted the machine.
    During the boot routine, after the standard F12 key action, I set the attached USB HDD as a boot disk. The R'n'R application started and, after a prompt, the old disk contents were transferred to the new one.
    All took about 3h.

    After the final reboot (and switching back the internal disk as a boot one), all the stuff started working as it used to do (passwords, fingerprint reader, all custom settings, all applications).
    Amazing...