[ltp] T42 Win XP RescueRecovery from CD hung

[Kelvin KAN]

Thanks Otis for your experience!

Sorry it was my mistake.  The "take a few minutes" of the progress bar 
actually took 10 minutes.  I was just impatient and thought it was hung.

So if the RescueRecovery tools are at the end of the shipped drive of 
the T42, a brand-new formatted drive won't be able to perform any 
Recovery even if I have made the CDs, unless I copy such partition to 
the new drive, right?  It doesn't matter really much, because I plan to 
just keep the shipped 40GB as backup drive.


Thanks,
-
kelvin.


ogjunk-linuxtp@yahoo.com wrote:

>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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