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    Rescue and Recovery 4, Vista? Help please.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by MYK, Feb 12, 2007.

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    MYK Newbie NBR Reviewer

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    I've asked a lot of questions lately, please excuse me. I'm very confused! I backed up my pc using lenovo's rescue and recovery 4 via thinkvantage. Upon start up I can access rescue and recovery as I used to with XP. I have a choice to recover from my last backup and another option of recovering factory settings. Would this recover it (as claimed) to the day it left the factory? XP that is. Or would it recover it as Vista which I installed later on. On device manager I can still view the hidden 5gb that has XP's recovery. How do I get rid of that all together? I can't expand from device manager, any other option?
     
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    the factory recovery thing will recover it as imaged in the read-only service partition, EXACTLY as the day you got it.
     
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    and I also have the option of recovering to my last backup (Vista)?
     
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    if you made a backup
     
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    Thank you Zeus, you are 100% sure? It would access the "hidden" partition and re install XP without a key. Also, when I restore from a backup, I get the laptop to go into the last update mode without asking for Vista key again?
     
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