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    Recovery

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Clarky, Mar 3, 2006.

  1. Clarky

    Clarky Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey.

    I finnaly get my laptop working again (IBM Thinkpad R50e - 1834-S5G), and then i format external hd. I do this whilst forgeting that I had my only backup on the external HD. Before I had realised what i had done, i wanted to install a second OS onto my external HD to test.
    I installed this, then restarted and what happens... but it wont boot from my internal hd or my external. I can access the IBM rescue/recovery utility, but it is not much use when you havnt got a backup to restore.

    Is there any place I can download the product recovery files? Or a system backup... Or do I just need to order a product recovery disk from IBM.

    I would install windows off one of the disks I have, but without all the drivers, and I didnt backup the IBM Tools folder (which cannot be downloaded) this is again not much use.

    Regards,
    John Clark
     
    Clarky, Mar 3, 2006
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  2. Darbyjack

    Darbyjack Notebook Evangelist

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    hey clarky

    welcome to NBR and hopefully someone will help you :)
     
    Darbyjack, Mar 3, 2006
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  3. r1ckchard

    r1ckchard Notebook Guru

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    Try http://forum.thinkpads.com/
    If you're lucky, someone will have copies of the original recovery stuff and all you'll have to pay them is for postage. Check out the Buy/Sell part of that forum.
     
    r1ckchard, Mar 4, 2006
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  4. Yamaraj

    Yamaraj Notebook Enthusiast

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    You can recover your system back to its original state, only if you:
    1. didn't delete/alter partitions of the ThinkPad's HDD.
    2. can boot into the Rescue and Recovery environment at boot time after pressing Access IBM/ThinkVantage button.

    Get ready for the exercise. Press the Access IBM / ThinkVantage button at
    boot time. In the RnR environment, there is an option to restore your ThinkPad
    to its original (software) state. Select recovery and restore to factory defaults
    option.

    It'll take probably an hour to completely restore your system. Afterwards, you
    should create Recovery Media (1 bootable CD and 1 Data DVD). RTFM!
     
    Yamaraj, Mar 5, 2006
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