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    Lenovo Rescue & Recovery 4.5: terrible piece of software

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by thierry2064, Jan 17, 2013.

  1. thierry2064

    thierry2064 Newbie

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    Hello all,
    Just a notice to all users, I had a terrible bug with Lenovo Rescue & Recovery. Everything went well, until the restore: I have one SSD for system and one micro sata for data. The system drive had two partitions (created by Lenovo at the origin, a system (C) partition and a Lenovo recovery partition). When I tried to restore a previous version of the system drive that I backuped with Lenovo R&R, it restored the system on C: and restored the recovery partition... on D:, erasing all my data! In addition, the MBR was missing on the system. And cherry on the cake, I could not use the backup a second time when I tried, because R&R did not find the backup again.
    I was particularly disappointed because as the backup went so smoothly, I did not do a data backup before restore, my previous backup being three days old, so I lost three days of work.
    I had previous bad experience with Windows backup & restore, windows software could not find the restore, but at least it did not erase data on a different drive.
    Thierry
     
    thierry2064, Jan 17, 2013
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  2. Kaso

    Kaso Notebook Virtuoso

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    At the present, every piece of software is a POS.

    Sorry to hear about your frustrating and disappointing situation, but your data is most valuable. Take good care of it.

    People worry sick about latency this and throughput that, but pay zero attention to the precious things can be very hard to re-create.
     
    Kaso, Jan 17, 2013
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  3. Flickster

    Flickster Notebook Evangelist

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    Like Kaso said, take good care of your data.

    I see it all the time. People spend Thousands on a laptop or PC but don't want to spend $60-$80 on a decent backup solution so they try use the free tools and expect premium results. Open that wallet, do some research and buy a decent backup and restore solution, there is a few out there. I use Acronis. Having decent backup software is worth every penny.
     
    Flickster, Jan 18, 2013
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