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    lenovo recovery disconnected

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jksince94, Jul 18, 2012.

  1. jksince94

    jksince94 Newbie

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    Just got a brand new T420 and I love it. Just a couple problems though. I was playing around with it and I went into the Back up and Restore. I pressed "Back up now" and it went to Lenovo_Recovery. However there wasn't enough disk space so I just did whatever I was prompted to, and I think I might have deleted something. Anyways, now it says that Lenovo_Recovery is Disconnected. How can I fix this?
     
    jksince94, Jul 18, 2012
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    jksince94 Newbie

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    bump. anyone?
     
    jksince94, Jul 18, 2012
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    where does it say this?
     
    gerryf19, Jul 19, 2012
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    jksince94 Newbie

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    It said it in Backup and Restore, but now that I've backed up on an external hard drive, it is no longer listed.
     
    jksince94, Jul 20, 2012
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    I think what is going on is that the system thinks the backup location is no longer there. Do you see MANAGE BACKUP? Click that and see if it will allow you to delete the backup volume
     
    gerryf19, Jul 21, 2012
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    esotericdesignstudio Notebook Enthusiast NBR Reviewer

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    After you back it up, there is an option to "recover" the space taken up by the recovery drive (Q). The drive partition is deleted and added to the OS drive (C) or islisted as unallocated space. Check if your (C) drive has gained ~10GB in space. Also, near as I can tell, the recovery partition remains the same even if you keep it. i don't think anything gets added to it. Someone correct if I'm wrong about that.
     
    esotericdesignstudio, Jul 21, 2012
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