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    recovering factory preload

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by shortie, Nov 22, 2008.

  1. shortie

    shortie Newbie

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    Hi all,

    I have a brandnew W700. After powering I burned the recovering media. For some reason I missed the second one which includes the OS.
    I installed my own Vista X64, but left the other partitions untouched. So the Service003 (as drive D) and the Lenovo as dirve E are still there.
    Installaing Rescue and Revocery doesn't work because it says the I have the wrong .tvt file ????

    Is the any way to recover the factory preload, before I really wipe the complete hard drive.

    As far as I can see I only would have to boot the Service partition up since it include a WinPE, but how??


    Kind regards,

    shortie
     
    shortie, Nov 22, 2008
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    newhren Notebook Enthusiast

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    if you are REALLY positive that you didn't touch the first partition (Service003), hopefully the bootloader is still there. Then the only thing you need to do is to edit the MBR: turn on the flag "bootable"(="active") for the first partition, and turn it off for the second (this is the largest partition). The easiest way to do it -- boot from some linux live-CD and run "cfdisk /dev/sda".
     
    newhren, Nov 22, 2008
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