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    I Need Help And Fast!!!

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mstevmac, Sep 10, 2007.

  1. mstevmac

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    I am leaving on Friday for school and my computer decided to do some really weird stuff last ngiht. For some reason it has deleted everything on my hard drive it seems like on my R60 that i purchased 3 months ago. It has a totally new boot up after the XP loading screen as before (i.e. It doesnt make me do the fingerprint, I click start, and there are no programs or anything.) So i want to do a clean install of xp but when I start to do Rescue and Recover 3, a popup comes up and asks for a Rescue and Recovery Workspace Logon. I type my password that i know is correct for the Client Security passphrase and click OK. Then another popup comes up and says "The requested operation requires passphrase authentication, but you do not have a passphrase configured. Please configure a passphrase and retry the operation." What does this mean and how do I fix this...

    THANKS

    If easier my AIM screen name is mstevmac and I'll be here on a different computer than the laptop
     
    mstevmac, Sep 10, 2007
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    That's very odd... Ive never heard of that happening.

    IF your R60 has system restore, try that and set it to restore before all this happened and that may fix the problem
     
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    How would I go about doing that? If it is pushing the blue thinkvantage button once windows has started up, I've tried to do that already, and nothing happens! :(
     
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    system restore is located under All programs, accesories, sytem tools.

    a clean install may not give him back the fingerprint thingy
     
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    I looked under my computer and I have the backup partition that has all the original files in tact...is there anyway I can use those and do a clean install? All my data is on an external HD that I plug in via USB. So data is NOT an issue here! Thanks for the help guys I really appreciate it...do you have any suggestions?
     
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    Unfortunately when I click start --> Programs --> Acc --> System Tools....theres nothing there!! And Help & Support isn't working.... :(
     
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    What's weirdis that it shows all of the programs I had before this mess in Add/Remove Programs...and when I want to go to My Computer this pops up:

    Please wait while windows configures Client Security Package....and then fails And it says "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"

    and then you have to find the source....
     
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    Okay so I finally got rescue and recovery to work from the boot up by pressing F1....now what do I do? I'm on the main R&R page!! HELP!! Can I restore my computer back to the way I received it from IBM?
     
    mstevmac, Sep 10, 2007
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