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    How to get into Rescue and Recovery from boot

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by maxillo, Apr 13, 2007.

  1. maxillo

    maxillo Newbie

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    Hey,

    Just got a t60 with vista premium. I was playing with the partitions, ran into problems, and wanted to do a rescue and recovery installation, but I can't get it to come up at boot.

    When pressing the IBM button at boot, I get the option to continue as normal, enter bios, or choose a temporary boot device.

    I have a t40 and never have run RnR several times now. Not so on the t60.

    Any option to run RnR from command prompt.....other suggestions.

    cheers

    Mike
     
    maxillo, Apr 13, 2007
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  2. acaurora

    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    What exactly did you do while "playing" around with your partitions? You might have deleted the hidden partition on accident ?
     
    acaurora, Apr 13, 2007
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  3. maxillo

    maxillo Newbie

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    No, the hidden recovery partition is still there.

    I was being simplistic by saying playing around. What I did was resize the Vista partition and add a Mac OS partition to try to install OSX. However, I was having problems with the video driver on OSX and decided to delecte it. Restored the vista partition to its previous size but in the process, the drive letters got changed and winloader.exe was no longer being detected.

    Hence, I wanted to restore things to the way they were when new. I could not for the life of me figure out how to use the info on the rescue parittion to restore the system.

    In the end I managed to restore things to function with the Vista upgrade disk. But I digress.....once again.....Is there a way to enter Rescue and Recovery from the boot screen? Hitting the IBM think button just gets me options on the boot device and entering the bios.

    Cheers
     
    maxillo, Apr 14, 2007
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  4. jimc

    jimc Notebook Consultant

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    have you tried F11?
     
    jimc, Apr 15, 2007
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