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    T410 Recovery Discs

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by crust4, May 23, 2010.

  1. crust4

    crust4 Newbie

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    I'm new to the forums. So please don't roast me... yet. Heh

    I just got my t410 about a week ago. Very excited with it and love the machine so far. Running into somewhat of a problem at this point though.

    Has anyone tried to burn the recovery discs with the included software? What's with the 1 disc Boot Medium and 2 discs of Recovery Medium? I'm assuming you boot from the Boot Medium and it'll prompt you some way along the install to insert the other 2 discs?

    My real question also, is there any way to check the discs to make sure they burned correctly? I would like to remove that recovery partition, and don't wanna be SOL with a bad hard drive and bad recovery discs. It seemed to take a particularly long time to burn the disks and I had some errors the first time around.
     
    crust4, May 23, 2010
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  2. halobox

    halobox Notebook Deity

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    The only real way to know is to run a test on another blank hard drive. It's the first thing I do with each new machine.
     
    halobox, May 23, 2010
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    BHJOJO Notebook Enthusiast

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    Try to clone your machine... That's what i am planning to do after mine comes in
     
    BHJOJO, May 23, 2010
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    hceuterpe Notebook Evangelist

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    I've actually done this (about 3 times...)
    The first disc is actually I believe a WinPE boot disk. The two other discs contain the install data.

    The restore seem to work fine, but I started off with a clean system because I wanted it, plus I installed Windows 7 Enterprise x64
     
    hceuterpe, May 24, 2010
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