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    Rescue and Recovery - Re-enabling After Clean Install

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mca2k4, Nov 2, 2007.

  1. mca2k4

    mca2k4 Notebook Guru

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    After clean installing 32-bit Vista Ultimate, the Blue Thinkvantage button is no longer able to bring up Rescue and Recovery at startup (as mentioned in stallen's guide). However, even after installing Rescue and Recovery again in Windows, the blue Thinkvantage button still does not work.

    What's the way around this?
     
    mca2k4, Nov 2, 2007
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  2. 7evendeuce

    7evendeuce Notebook Consultant

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    I think the ThinkVantage button is set up to boot from the hidden partition on the harddrive. Did you format the whole entire harddrive when doing the clean install? In that case, it won't work.

    Not sure if reinstalling Rescue and Recovery restores that partition...
     
    7evendeuce, Nov 2, 2007
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