[Thinkpad] (Followup) Restoring from USB Not Working!

[Kelvin Quee]

Thanks Matt and Alex for replying.

I'm simply rather furious that companies that I buy products from and
trusted left me out of the rain:

1) MS provided updates that screwed up. And I'm not the only one affected:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=30233&highlight=

2) MS's System Restore doesn't work.

3) IBM's Rescue and Recovery doesn't work.

Why? I'm so glad that when I graduated, I do not work in the line of
maintaining consumer machines. Those of you on this line who do, I
salute you!

KQ


On 22/10/06, Alex Austin <circuitsoft.alex at gmail.com> wrote:
> No idea how R&R works, but could you boot off of a BartPE CD, format your
> internal hard drive (the Windows Partition), and Copy files off the USB HDD?
> Once done, the Windows "Recovery Console" should allow you to get booting to
> work.
>
> If nothing else, what's wrong with just working in Linux? (I don't have
> Windows on my T23 at the moment)
>
> - Alex
>
>
> On 10/21/06, Kelvin Quee <kq at kquee.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm writing this as a followup to "Windows Update *May* Break Access
> > Connections" (Oct 11). At that point of time, Windows Update broke all
> > of my network connections. I've tried everything I could. Since then,
> > I've been doing all my work in Linux. Whether that's a good thing or
> > not remains to be seen.
> >
> > Today, I tried to restore the system using the famed R&R. I booted
> > into XP and attempted to restore from a USB HDD. Everything goes as
> > expected and R&R rebooted into XP.
> >
> > However, that's THAT. The computer simply goes into the normal XP
> > startup sequence. NO RESTORATION ever took place.
> >
> > Thinking that I would do better if I boot into the R&R Workspace in
> > the hidden partition, I did so. However, the R&R Workspace refused to
> > detect my USB HDD.
> >
> > So, now I'm stuck. I've a working backup in my USB HDD, but none of
> > the R&R methods can allow me to restore.
> >
> > Can anyone offer any clue?
> >
> > I'm working in a multiboot environment. Will GRUB interfere even
> > though I've full access to both XP and the hidden partition?
> >
> > What's the expected behaviour after selected a restore from USB HDD
> > function from Windows XP and a reboot?
> >
> > I've went through Lenny's website but it does not seem to offer any
> > clues. Google was more helpful in the sense that many people seems to
> > have issues with restoring from USB.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kelvin Quee
> > kq at kquee.com
> > +65 9177 3635
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>


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Kelvin Quee
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+65 9177 3635
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