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    How to burn the hidden recovery partition to CD's

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by soulfly273, Oct 15, 2004.

  1. soulfly273

    soulfly273 Newbie

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    Hello!!

    I have an R50 (18306FA) Thinkpad. Can anyone of you please tell me how to burn the hidden recovery partition on to CD's so that I can delete the hidden partition.

    I used Rapid restore ultra but it creates a backup of the files on the hard disk but not on CD's(its not giving me a option for cd's).

    Thanking you in advance
    Joe
     
    soulfly273, Oct 15, 2004
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  2. Big Calhoun

    Big Calhoun Notebook Evangelist

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    You can't edit the properties of Windows Explorer to Show All Hidden Files and just select them in your burning app??
     
    Big Calhoun, Oct 15, 2004
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  3. ronan_zj

    ronan_zj Notebook Evangelist

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    hi, have you tried to call IBM ask for r50 recovery cd?
    I have t40/p and t42/p recovery cd. I only can use t40 recovery cd recover my system. If I use t42 recovery cd, all harddriver will be formated.
    So, you can try to call IBM,ask for recovery cd.
     
    ronan_zj, Oct 15, 2004
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  4. IqbalHamid

    IqbalHamid Newbie

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    Have you tried using Norton Ghost 10 to backup that partitiion?

    Also, though I've never used them myself, I wonder if software such as partition magic might alow you to do this?
     
    IqbalHamid, Dec 29, 2007
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  5. alacrityathome

    alacrityathome Notebook Consultant

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    Or, Acronis Disk Director.
     
    alacrityathome, Dec 29, 2007
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  6. optomos

    optomos Notebook Evangelist

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    Go to BIOS using F1 then security-->IBM Predesktop Area-->Access IBM Predesktop Area and change to Disabled. That will make the hidden partition visible and then you can reclaim/remove and copy it.

    Other then that just order the recovery cds or reimage machine to factory state and then run the wizard to create recovery media.
     
    optomos, Dec 29, 2007
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  7. stallen

    stallen Thinkpad Woody

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    If you read the clean install guide (link in my sig), you will find out how to make recovery disks and how to delete the hidden partition.
     
    stallen, Dec 29, 2007
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