[ltp] T42 Win XP RescueRecovery from CD hung

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I've set up 2 TPs with dual-boot (T40 with XP/RH9. and T42 with
XP/FC3).  Both time the pre-loaded area was on the disk.  With TP40 it
was at the beginning of the disk, and with the T42 it was at the end.

Both times I used Partition Magic to resize partitions and create
patitions with ext3.  I let Partition Magic do all the partitioning
work, and so far things worked well.

Otis


--- Kelvin KAN <kelvin@sgi.com> wrote:

> 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.
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