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    How to create recovery disks

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by propeller10, Aug 19, 2011.

  1. propeller10

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    okay. so I have an edge e420s and I am trying to create recovery disks so I can restore the computer to factory default settings. (I am using the 'create recovery disks' tool from lenovo.)

    I have an external hard drive that can be connected to the laptop via USB. Can I use it to create recovery disk since I don't have blank DVDs.

    Thanks.
     
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    The tool should ask you whether you want to use an USB device or DVDs.
     
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    Thanks for the quick reply.

    Yeas it does. I was wondering if there would be any problems using an external hard drive instead of a USB stick.
     
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    I don't think so, as long as the laptop can boot from the HDD it should be fine. But I never tried that, so be aware if the tool formats the HDD or not before writing on it...
     
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    oh ok. I just created the recovery media and it worked. I'm about to restore the whole computer. Ill post back the results.

    Thanks again.
     
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    When I tried to boot in to the external harddrive the screen says.

    grub rescue>
    and some thing about that the partition does not exist.

    I have a dual boot setup. Should I try to remove linux first?
     
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    Are you sure you are booting from the external HDD where the R&R image lies? I would imagine that it does not matter at all what you have on your "normal" HDD as you are strictly using the external one...
     
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    Or it means that the R&R image has not been created successfully.
     
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    yeah. That's what i was thinking. It still gives me the grub message. Windows only lets me make one recovery disk because only one is allowed. I am scanning the hard drive to see if there are any problems.
     
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    It all worked out. I created a boot cd before. So I booted from that CD and used the external harddrive to restore the computer. Thanks for the help.
     
    propeller10, Aug 20, 2011
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