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Quick Reference Guide - Page 5
... 2. Setting up your computer 3 Turning on power 7 Finishing the software installation 7 Completing important tasks 7 Updating your operating system 8 Installing other operating systems 8 Updating your antivirus software 8 Starting the Setup Utility 8 Shutting down the computer 9 Recording your computer information 9
Chapter 3. Recovering software 11 Creating and using product recovery...
Quick Reference Guide - Page 17
... for your computer is available from the World Wide Web at http://www.lenovo.com/think/support.
You can find the following information on this Web site: v CRU removal and installation instructions v Publications v Troubleshooting information v Parts information v Downloads and drivers v Links to other useful sources of information v Phone support list
© Copyright Lenovo 2005. ©...
Quick Reference Guide - Page 26
... AntiVirus Web site. LiveUpdate will download the latest virus list and Norton AntiVirus will use the new list when it scans your computer the next time.
For details about updating your antivirus software, go to Access IBM.
Starting the Setup Utility
The Setup Utility enables you to view, set, or change BIOS configuration settings and passwords. 1. Shut down the operating system...
Quick Reference Guide - Page 30
.... 1. Insert the Rescue and Recovery disc into your CD or DVD drive. 2. Restart your computer. 3. After a short delay, the Rescue and Recovery workspace opens.
Note: If the Rescue and Recovery workspace fails to open, you might not have your startup device (CD drive or DVD drive) set correctly in your BIOS startup sequence. See "Setting a rescue device in the startup sequence" on...
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Post-recovery notes
Notes: 1. After restoring a hard disk to the original factory contents you might have
to reinstall device drivers for some devices. See "Recovering or installing device drivers" on page 17. 2. Some computers come with Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works preinstalled. If you need to recover or reinstall your Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works applications, you must use the ...
Quick Reference Guide - Page 35
... for the device.
Device drivers for factory-installed devices are located on the computer hard disk (usually drive C) in the ibmtools\drivers folder. Other device drivers are on the software media that come with individual devices.
The latest device drivers for factory-installed devices are also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.lenovo/think/support/.
To recover a device driver for an...
Quick Reference Guide - Page 38
... or use of parts not manufactured for or by Lenovo or
nonwarranted Lenovo parts. v Identification of software problem sources. v Configuration of BIOS as part of an installation or upgrade. v Changes, modifications, or upgrades to device drivers. v Installation and maintenance of network operating systems (NOS). v Installation and maintenance of application programs.
Refer to your Statement...
Quick Reference Guide - Page 54
...code (called ″BIOS″), utility programs, device drivers, and diagnostics delivered with an IBM Machine) and other software updates from an IBM Internet Web site or from other electronic media, and following the instructions that IBM provides. If your problem can be resolved with a Customer Replaceable Unit ("CRU") (e.g., keyboard, mouse, speaker, memory, hard disk drive and other easily...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 15
... the Rescue and Recovery program: The Rescue and Recovery environment supports only wired PCI-based, Ethernet network adapters. Network device drivers included in the Rescue and Recovery environment are the same drivers that are pre-populated in Microsoft Windows operating system and are independent of the Windows operating system. For supported Lenovo computers, required drivers are included with...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 17
... applet from Control Panel. The log file is not created when your are running the setup.exe file directly from the MSI package. To create a log file for all MSI actions, you can enable the logging policy in the registry. To do this, create the following value:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer] "Logging"="voicewarmup...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 18
... or Rescue and Recovery.msi if extracted or OEM install). The exceptions to this are if the Predesktop Area is already installed and does not need to be upgraded or if the property PDA=0 is set on the command line when executing the installation and the Predesktop Area (any version) does not already exist. The Windows Installer will compare...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 21
... c:\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery c:\SWSHARE c:\Program Files\Lenovo c:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo
Note: For a complete list of variables, run the set command on a computer that has the Rescue and Recovery program installed.
Compatibility with BitLocker
To achieve compatibility with BitLocker Drive Encryption, it is recommended to install the Rescue and Recovery program to your...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 26
...and the custom factory recovery method. The full factory recovery method restores the factory contents of the hard drive that consists of components such as applications, device drivers, and the operating system. Factory components are installed at the factory prior to the purchase of a computer. Using the Base Software Administrator program, you can control the recovery options that are available...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 29
... new version Windows RE built from Windows 7. You can download the accessory package from the Lenovo Support Web site at http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/ document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2QAK, and follow the steps to perform the correct Sysprep backup operation through Generalize option.
Overview of Windows RE (Recovery Environment) installation process in Windows 7
Unlike Windows Vista, Windows...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide - Page 61
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:: Take the base backup... service must be started
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cd "C:\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery"
RRcmd.exe backup location=L name=Base level=0
:: Reboot the system
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\BMGR"/bmgr32.exe /R
Updating
You may need to make a major change to your system, such as a service pack update to Windows. Before you install the service pack, you force an...
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(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.5 Deployment Guide - Page 16
... the computer. 4. Start BitLocker from Control Panel and choose the partition to encrypt.
Note: It is recommended to encrypt the Windows operating system partition (usually drive C) only. 5. Click Turn on BitLocker, and follow the instruction on the screen to encrypt the chosen partition.
After that, a recovery key is automatically created. 6. Save the recovery key to a USB storage device.
Note...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.5 Deployment Guide - Page 24
... new version Windows RE built from Windows 7. You can download the accessory package from the Lenovo Support Web site at http://support.lenovo.com. Follow the steps to perform the correct Sysprep backup operation through Generalize option.
Overview of Windows RE (Recovery Environment) installation process in Windows 7
Unlike Windows Vista, Windows RE has been installed to the Windows 7 operating...
(English) Rescue and Recovery 4.5 Deployment Guide - Page 53
..., such as a service pack update to Windows. Before you install the service pack, you force ...Recovery environment. For details, refer to "Using RRUTIL.EXE" on page 26. 3. Reboot the system into the Rescue and Recovery environment. 4. After you analyze the system and determine that there are files that you must back up, update the registry key at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\Settings...