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    New T400 Stuck in Startup Repair

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by huntnyc, Mar 27, 2009.

  1. huntnyc

    huntnyc Notebook Evangelist

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    Love everything about my new T400 but I am stuck in startup repair after imaging a Data partition from another machine intto free space created after I had resized my C drive. When reboot was attempted after Data image from my Sony FW was retored to free space on T400, I hit the Startup Repair which is taking quite a lot of time to do its work if it is doing so. The T400 seems quite fragile regarding moving data partitions from one laptop to another.

    I use latest version of ShadowProtect for imaging, doing restores to T400 from Boot CD of SP. T400 has Vista Business 32 bit with Lenovo partitions still on the drive.

    What has happened and what should I do now? What would you do in this situation and thanks.

    Gary
     
    huntnyc, Mar 27, 2009
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    Replying to my psot with an update on how I got out of endless repair lop in Vista after resotring C drive from ShadowProtect image made from Recovery CD.

    I got my Recovery DVDs and went to factory restore. Then, I used Image for Lynux from Terabyte and behold it worked imaging and restoring from CD the C drive. Lenovo boots the machine from a service partition and not C so maybe this gave SP some trouble but until a fix I cannot use my trusted SP on this Thinkpad T400 Vista laptop.

    Also, as Keving mentioned in his ifne review insane battery life. Ran for I guess 8 hours or more even with wireless on. Now, maybe I can get down to configuring the machine more for work if my imaging program will continue to work.

    Gary
     
    huntnyc, Mar 28, 2009
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