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    Recovery fails....

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by crackrock, Feb 26, 2008.

  1. crackrock

    crackrock Newbie

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    My T61 came with Vista Ultimate, crashed so often I decided to install XP on a new ntfs partition.

    But then it got impossible to boot in Vista. I decided to restore the factory settings using the recovery partition.... but while restoring I got an error message '%s failed' or something similar.

    Now all partitions are missing and I cannot get into recovery mode anymore....


    And worst of all, I never made backups of the recovery partition........


    Where can I get the recovery CD for the Lenovo T61 for free?
     
    crackrock, Feb 26, 2008
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    From Lenovo, but you're gonna have to find $45 in cash on the ground for it to be free to you.
     
    adinu, Feb 26, 2008
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  3. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    Call Lenovo Tech Support (not customer support) and tell them that the restore process produces an error and you cannot recover. They should send you a set of Recovery Discs for free.
     
    Arki, Feb 26, 2008
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