Installing True Image Home on Thinkpad with "Lenovo - Rescue and Recovery" Pgm ?
I am planning on installing True Image Home on my T61 PC (Win XP) which currently has "Lenovo - Rescue and Recovery" Backup and Recovery Pgm" (which also makes use of hidden partition and I think modified the MBR, when it first installed, to allow F11 key access to it for Recovery purposes.
.... Now, If during the True Image - Install, True Image installs a hidden partition for its "Startup Recovery Manager" feature:
1. Will I have any issues if I leave the "Lenovo - Rescue and Recovery" Pgm on my PC which also makes use of a hidden partition which is accessable by pressing the Blue Thinkvantage Key on my Lenovo ThinkPad T61 PC?
....So, Will there by any issues ? P.S. I think that when True Image installs it may modify the MBR on the hard drive.
2. Have others installed the True Image Home Program on their Thinkpads which also have "Lenovo - Rescue and Recovery Pgm" on them ???
... If yes, any issues accessing the "Lenovo - Rescue and Recovery - Workspace, via F11 Key and/or blue Thinkvantage Button" --- OR --- accessing the True Image "Startup Recovery Manager" on the ThinkPad T61 ?
3. Or, have you Un-Installed "Lenovo Rescue and Recovery Pgm" first and then installed "True Image Home" ?
... If yes, any issues accessing the Hidden Partition - True Image's "Startup Recovery Manager" on the ThinkPad T61 ?

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Hi bodgy,
I am thinking that activating the "Acronis Start Up Manager" (ASRM) will add the convenience of rolling back and restoring a prior image of windows operating system and the entire contents of the hard drive without looking around to locate a rescue cd and should be a faster procees to restore.
....... Am I correct ???
Also, A few questions:
1. So, did you go the route of "Activating the Acronis ASRM" ?
2. Did you also go the route of "Activating the Acronis Secure Zone" ?
3. Once I switch to another imaging pgm like Acronis and made a backup to the external drive with acronis, I would no longer want to use the lenovo rescue and recovery pgm and would also have no need for the lenovo RnR - recovery partiton because I would not ever want to go back to an original factory image anymore.
.... So be that the case,
4. Question: What is the procedure and steps to follow to delete/wipe out the "Hidden" - Lenovo Recovery Partition" ?
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Joseph Brancato wrote:Hi bodgy,
I am thinking that activating the "Acronis Start Up Manager" (ASRM) will add the convenience of rolling back and restoring a prior image of windows operating system and the entire contents of the hard drive without looking around to locate a rescue cd and should be a faster procees to restore.
....... Am I correct ???
True ... but what if your system hard drive goes belly up without warning? The SZ and its contents go with it.
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DwnNDrty,
"True ... but what if your system hard drive goes belly up without warning? The SZ and its contents go with it."
Yes, you are right I still will need to create a rescue disk in case hard drive does not work. But, I was thinking what about for normal usage when hard drive is working and you just want to rollback to a prior version image of windows because you tested out a new program which made some lets say undesirable changes to windows and you want to quicly rollnabk to a prior windows version,
..... wouldn't the Acronis Start Up Manager work for this and wouldn't be quicker than involving a rescue cd ?
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As DwnDrty says even if you use the SZ then you still really need an external image just in case the laptop drive dies.
However the ASRM doesn't need the SZ in order to operate, it can be used with external drives in the same manner as a rescue CD. However, it would be worth making a Rescue CD anyway just to test that the Linux environment can see all your hardware - if it can then the ASRM will be able to as well.
The hidden partition will show up in Disk Management. I used DD10 to delete and extend the 'C:' partition. However I did this when the OS was Vista and the latest version of DD10 will not install on W7. If you have access to another computer then you could make a rescue CD containing DD10 and perform the disk operations there.
If you are using Vista or W7 you could also use Windows Disk Management to delete the service partition and then extend the existing partition. I haven't tried this with W7.
To get to Disk Management right click on My Computer (if you have a desktop icon) or Start Button\Computer and then right click and choose manage
Make a complete disk image before attempting any of the above including activating the ASRM if you are able to. Keep this one safe as it'll allow you to be ab le to restore the laptop to factory condition should you want to sell it.
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