Recovery Medium burn error question

Got my new T420 and attempted to burn a recovery medium. All was well for the first three disks, but when the last disk (DVD#3) was inserted and started, towards the end of the burn I got an error message. Asked me to try again and I Inserted another DVD disk and this time it went well.

Wonder if this might have messed it up a bit where it might be damaged and not work correctly when needed. Anyone have this issue when burning a Recovery Medium ?

 

Most laptops verify their recovery media after burning. As long as the last disc burned fine on the second try, I wouldn't be concerned. Just store them in a dark, dry place that isn't subject to a lot of heat to ensure the discs last, and you should be good to go.

 

Good to know and thank you LoneWolf15

 

As stated above you should be fine. If you are really paranoid, I would test them out if they work.

 

I'm going to leave well enough alone right now, since I still have the option of restoring using the hidden partition or the restore disks I made. If worse comes to worse, I can always purchase the recovery disk from Lenovo later.


Thanks for the replies

 

If you are in warranty and your drive fails and your recovery media didn't work, Lenovo/IBM will send you recovery media.

 

Without cost Tsunade ?

My warranty is Onsite, 3 yrs with Protection. Normally the Hard drives are pretty solid unless one is unlucky but good to know if Lenovo will give the recovery disks if the HDD goes bad.

This is my first Lenovo notebook, last one, yrs ago was a Dell and that had issues from the first day on. At the time ( dating me now ) Dell gave the restore disks with the system.

 

Yes, you will need to call up Lenovo. This is only cases where the drive conks out and you were not able to make recovery media or it got corrupted AND it is within warranty.

Dell business is still shipping out with recovery media. Consumer for the most part do not come with recovery media, and for 3 dollars you can purchase it when ordering it, otherwise it would be ~30 dollars.

 

Burn went well the second time, called Lenovo and they said that unless the medium failed they would not send out a recovery disk, which I expected anyway.

Thinking of doing a clean install and download the required drivers from Lenovo site anyway. I have about 97 processes that makes things way slow on my system

 

I've never used this. What's the difference between burning recovery disks and the separate recovery partition that they ship with?

 

The recovery disks can be used on a different hard drive. The recovery disks erase all partitions on a hard drive when they are used. The recovery partition only erases the C: partition. Sometimes upgrading Rescue and Recovery can keep the recovery partition from recovering a system. I don't recommend upgrading Rescue and Recovery if you ever think you might use the recovery partition.

 

That happened to me. And I have used the disks to transfer the factory image to my new SSD.

No problem.

Perry

 

both methods will allow you to restore the machine to the factory default build, but using the recovery disks is superior because:

1) you can delete the recovery partition and reclaim that space for your own use
2) if you a replacing/upgrading the hard drive, you don't need to copy the recovery partition to the new disk
3) if your hard disk crashes and the recovery partition is not accessible, you'll have to use the recovery disks anyway....hence why Lenovo will send you the disks if the system is still under warranty.

 

Thanks for the explanations. Sounds like there's only upside to creating recovery disks and deleting that partition. I guess I'd have to do so anyway to get the factory image onto the ssd.

 

Wow 97 running processes? My Z61t using Lenovo recovery media had 47, an increase from 33 when it had a clean install yet I notice no difference in speed. Might want to disable stuff in msconfig

 

I've been disabling some of the 97 programs ( Now 73), but boy O boy some of the programs are greek to me and unknown which one is safe and not needed.

What I'm waiting for is Windows 7 with SP-1 aleady integrated into the DVD to purchase then I will do a clean install and only download the necessary programs I really need.