[ltp] T42 Win XP RescueRecovery from CD hung

[Kelvin KAN]

Hello,

I finally bought the T42 with nice a 1400x1050 screen, even though it is 
1-lb heavier than my current Fujitsu Lifebook-S which has so many 
non-fatal defects already.

So to prepare a backdoor to fallback to factory-installed XP, before 
playing around with Linux, I made a backup of the RescueRecovery 
partition, using the built-in tool in WinXP's AccessIBM program 
folder.   To be 100% sure the set of 7 CDs worked, I even tried to 
verify the  restoration by booting from those CDs.

That's where the nightmare began.  On finishing reading the last CDs, it 
requested me to reboot.  And on accepting all the yes/no confirmation 
questions, then it tried to patient me by prompting:
    Rescue Recovery in Progress.  This may take a few minutes.
    Total Progress ...

And it'd never progressed, stopped  at a few % of the progress bar.  
Re-attempting the whole recovery process did not help.

Any suggestions?

I am also wondering whether the RescueRecovery is residing on the 
firmware PROM or flashmemory or the so-called Pre-desktop area.  I 
downloaded (but haven't got a chance to installed it before the problem) 
the latest version of the RescueRecovery tools and found its size to be 
some 400MB i.e. not quite reasonably to fit in expensive PROM or 
flashmemory.

I ask this question is because if the Rescue is on PROM, I may just 
tried to buy a new 80GB drive to start the recovery process all over 
again (so nothing dirty left over from the original small 40GB).


Thanks in advance!
-
kelvin.