I would think the Thinkpad Recovery/Reinstall 2-Disk or 3-disk set will work fine, once you reformat the drive, then cold boot to the CD set.
If you don't have the restore-recovery set, Lenovo will sell you one from the Houston supply center for $54 or you can likely get a "copy" from somebody on this forum Ray ________ Everything should be as simple as possible, But no simpler. .. ... .... ..... ...... Albert Einstein On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to restore a T41p hard drive back to its original factory state. > The Windows installed at that time was compromised and didn't have Rescue > and Recovery installed. The hard drive did have the SERVICEV001 partition > intact. > > I used the wrong version of Rescue and Recovery (version 4). After > getting errors attempting to install it, I rebooted from a startup disk - > yup, for Version 4. I got error messages, but I also discovered the R&R > partition was deleted. All I had was the 700MB ... "preload?" partition. > > I used Hiren's Boot CD to undelete the R&R partition, but it was now the C: > drive and unhidden. I used another program on Hiren's to hide the > partition and make another partition the C: drive. Partition Magic grayed > out the "Hide Partition" option so I used another program. > > I installed Windows from a generic OEM CD, and then installed Rescue and > Recovery version 3. I rebooted, hit F11, and went through the appropriate > prompts to try to restore the hard drive to its original factory state. > > That's when I got the error message listed in the subject line. Recov32 > said "The directory name is invalid". I went back to Windows to try to > create recovery media, but the program closed after creating the startup CD. > > How can correct what's happened? The only other thought I had was to use > recovery media from another Thinkpad supported by Rescue and Recovery 3. I > have recovery media for the X40 and G40. > > Thanks for reading. > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
