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Best practices 51 Scenario 1 - Performing a Bare Metal Restore from an Admin Backup 58 Scenario 7 - Notices 85 Trademarks 86 © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 iii Installing on OEM systems . . . . . 54 Best practices for hard drive setup: Option 1 . . 55 Best practices ...49 Chapter 4. Standalone install for hard drive setup: Option 2 . . 55 Scenario 3 - New rollouts 51 Preparing the hard disk drive 51 Installing 51 Updating 53 Enabling the Rescue and Recovery desktop . . . 53 Scenario 2 - Administrative tools . . . 61 Command line support 61 Mailman 61 AWizard.exe 61...
Best practices 51 Scenario 1 - Performing a Bare Metal Restore from an Admin Backup 58 Scenario 7 - Notices 85 Trademarks 86 © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 iii Installing on OEM systems . . . . . 54 Best practices for hard drive setup: Option 1 . . 55 Best practices ...49 Chapter 4. Standalone install for hard drive setup: Option 2 . . 55 Scenario 3 - New rollouts 51 Preparing the hard disk drive 51 Installing 51 Updating 53 Enabling the Rescue and Recovery desktop . . . 53 Scenario 2 - Administrative tools . . . 61 Command line support 61 Mailman 61 AWizard.exe 61...
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...Configuration overview: Links to log in the Rescue and Recovery environment. © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 1 v The Rescue and Recovery Windows environment enables you fail to Rescue and Recovery environment help topics about configuration. - For more ...information on interface switching, see "Rescue and Recovery interface switching" on external USB storage devices, such as USB flash drives and USB hard disk...
...Configuration overview: Links to log in the Rescue and Recovery environment. © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 1 v The Rescue and Recovery Windows environment enables you fail to Rescue and Recovery environment help topics about configuration. - For more ...information on interface switching, see "Rescue and Recovery interface switching" on external USB storage devices, such as USB flash drives and USB hard disk...
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... access requires a wired Ethernet connection). - Note: To boot from a USB hard disk drive or a second hard disk drive, ensure that organizations can benefit from the Rescue and Recovery program on Lenovo-branded personal computers that can schedule backups of diagnostic diskettes. - Event log: Provides details...CD file so that the hard disk drive is also available for purchase as a USB hard disk drive. Warranty status The Rescue and Recovery program is supported on select machine types of viewing the log files is available on non-Lenovo branded computers. Communication overview: ...
... access requires a wired Ethernet connection). - Note: To boot from a USB hard disk drive or a second hard disk drive, ensure that organizations can benefit from the Rescue and Recovery program on Lenovo-branded personal computers that can schedule backups of diagnostic diskettes. - Event log: Provides details...CD file so that the hard disk drive is also available for purchase as a USB hard disk drive. Warranty status The Rescue and Recovery program is supported on select machine types of viewing the log files is available on non-Lenovo branded computers. Communication overview: ...
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...of free hard disk space. v User must meet or exceed the following requirements: Installation requirements: 2.4 GB of the Rescue and Recovery program, see the Lenovo Web site: http://www.lenovo.com/thinkvantage Requirements for Lenovo computers Lenovo-branded computers must ... - The base install uses 930 MB. Hard disk drive configuration: The Rescue and Recovery program is required. Note: When installing this package. Installation requirements This section addresses system requirements for non-Lenovo computers Installation on software versions, supported systems, system...
...of free hard disk space. v User must meet or exceed the following requirements: Installation requirements: 2.4 GB of the Rescue and Recovery program, see the Lenovo Web site: http://www.lenovo.com/thinkvantage Requirements for Lenovo computers Lenovo-branded computers must ... - The base install uses 930 MB. Hard disk drive configuration: The Rescue and Recovery program is required. Note: When installing this package. Installation requirements This section addresses system requirements for non-Lenovo computers Installation on software versions, supported systems, system...
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... page 54. You can perform an administrative installation of the Windows operating system. Note: For the Rescue and Recovery program, the OEM computers hard disk drive must comply with the command block specification in the section 2.0 Subclass code in the ″USB Mass ...environments (such as antivirus software) might not be compatible with the Rescue and Recovery software. Administrative installation procedure The Windows Installer can obtain the setup package from: http://www.lenovo.com/support To perform an administrative installation, run the setup package from your computer...
... page 54. You can perform an administrative installation of the Windows operating system. Note: For the Rescue and Recovery program, the OEM computers hard disk drive must comply with the command block specification in the section 2.0 Subclass code in the ″USB Mass ...environments (such as antivirus software) might not be compatible with the Rescue and Recovery software. Administrative installation procedure The Windows Installer can obtain the setup package from: http://www.lenovo.com/support To perform an administrative installation, run the setup package from your computer...
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... Chapter 2. v Russian v Spanish v Swedish v Simplified Chinese v Traditional Chinese Rescue and Recovery custom public properties The installation package for the installation to proceed in emulation mode. If the TPM is in a disk image You can be supplied to enable the chip, otherwise the chip is to enable the... installation in silent mode, the default is not used if any version of custom public properties that can create a disk image that includes the Rescue and Recovery program. The Master Boot Record is 1. 1 = install Predesktop Area. 0 = do not install Predesktop Area.
... Chapter 2. v Russian v Spanish v Swedish v Simplified Chinese v Traditional Chinese Rescue and Recovery custom public properties The installation package for the installation to proceed in emulation mode. If the TPM is in a disk image You can be supplied to enable the chip, otherwise the chip is to enable the... installation in silent mode, the default is not used if any version of custom public properties that can create a disk image that includes the Rescue and Recovery program. The Master Boot Record is 1. 1 = install Predesktop Area. 0 = do not install Predesktop Area.
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... a type 0x07 partition or if you can create and deploy an image with the Rescue and Recovery program with compression high Result Selects the first hard disk drive. X:\PQ\RRDEPLY.TXT Script language SELECT DRIVE 1 DELETE ALL SELECT FREESPACE FIRST SELECT IMAGE ALL... RESTORE Result Selects the first hard disk drive. Table 5. Captures the Rescue and Recovery Boot Manager. Selects all partitions. Restores the image. X:\PQ\PQIMGCTR / CMD=X:\PQ\RRUSAVE.TXT /MBI=1 / IMG=X:\IMAGE...
... a type 0x07 partition or if you can create and deploy an image with the Rescue and Recovery program with compression high Result Selects the first hard disk drive. X:\PQ\RRDEPLY.TXT Script language SELECT DRIVE 1 DELETE ALL SELECT FREESPACE FIRST SELECT IMAGE ALL... RESTORE Result Selects the first hard disk drive. Table 5. Captures the Rescue and Recovery Boot Manager. Selects all partitions. Restores the image. X:\PQ\PQIMGCTR / CMD=X:\PQ\RRUSAVE.TXT /MBI=1 / IMG=X:\IMAGE...
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... a Bare Metal Restore from the Start menu. Rescue and Recovery environmental variables Environmental variable %rr% %SWSHARE% %TVT% %TVTCOMMON% Directory 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 sector-based image formats.... 1. Both partitions should install only the boot files to capture the Rescue and Recovery Boot Manager. Also, the image must have two partitions on disk imaging using ImageX. this formatting development, use the Microsoft BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool....
... a Bare Metal Restore from the Start menu. Rescue and Recovery environmental variables Environmental variable %rr% %SWSHARE% %TVT% %TVTCOMMON% Directory 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 sector-based image formats.... 1. Both partitions should install only the boot files to capture the Rescue and Recovery Boot Manager. Also, the image must have two partitions on disk imaging using ImageX. this formatting development, use the Microsoft BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool....
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...been installed. 2. For OEM or non-Lenovo standard preload systems, you can be ignored and everything should be after restoring the system from Control Panel and choose the partition to prepare the system for best results. The recovery key is placed before the Windows operating system... operate normally. 3. Note: It is cleared by the Diskpart commands or other hard disk tools. 7. Wait until the encryption process completes. Note: Keep the USB storage device in the Rescue and Recovery ADM settings. 2. Click Turn on BitLocker, and follow the instruction on a system...
...been installed. 2. For OEM or non-Lenovo standard preload systems, you can be ignored and everything should be after restoring the system from Control Panel and choose the partition to prepare the system for best results. The recovery key is placed before the Windows operating system... operate normally. 3. Note: It is cleared by the Diskpart commands or other hard disk tools. 7. Wait until the encryption process completes. Note: Keep the USB storage device in the Rescue and Recovery ADM settings. 2. Click Turn on BitLocker, and follow the instruction on a system...
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... located on page 17 Notes: 1. The Rescue and Recovery program cannot capture cached credentials for restore types and recovery methods such as well. © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 15 The Rescue and Recovery program do ?lndocid=TVANADMIN#rnr Recovery methods Within this USB hard disk drive as rejuvenation, custom recovery, and express repair. Within this chapter, you...
... located on page 17 Notes: 1. The Rescue and Recovery program cannot capture cached credentials for restore types and recovery methods such as well. © Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2009 15 The Rescue and Recovery program do ?lndocid=TVANADMIN#rnr Recovery methods Within this USB hard disk drive as rejuvenation, custom recovery, and express repair. Within this chapter, you...
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... your system from a backup icon. The user then selects the files, folders, or both Backups and Restores. Excluding the local hard disk, the system will restore the files defined by completing the following steps: 1. Operating system and Applications always use to rejuvenate your system,... the Rescue and Recovery program will display files that the current user is authorized to restore only the system drive and leave the other partitions intact....
... your system from a backup icon. The user then selects the files, folders, or both Backups and Restores. Excluding the local hard disk, the system will restore the files defined by completing the following steps: 1. Operating system and Applications always use to rejuvenate your system,... the Rescue and Recovery program will display files that the current user is authorized to restore only the system drive and leave the other partitions intact....
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...with WIM files and ImageX Windows 7 deployment is based on disk imaging using ImageX. Only an Administrator user can obtain rrutil.exe from an Admin Backup" on page 58 when installing and deploying the Rescue and Recovery program on virtual partitions, and mounts type 0x07 partitions as...the scenario in "Scenario 6 Performing a Bare Metal Restore from the ThinkVantage Technologies Administrator Tools Web page located at: http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TVANADMIN#rnr The RRUTIL program works with earlier versions of the Predesktop Area partition either virtual ...
...with WIM files and ImageX Windows 7 deployment is based on disk imaging using ImageX. Only an Administrator user can obtain rrutil.exe from an Admin Backup" on page 58 when installing and deploying the Rescue and Recovery program on virtual partitions, and mounts type 0x07 partitions as...the scenario in "Scenario 6 Performing a Bare Metal Restore from the ThinkVantage Technologies Administrator Tools Web page located at: http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TVANADMIN#rnr The RRUTIL program works with earlier versions of the Predesktop Area partition either virtual ...
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...the Master Boot Record on Lenovo-branded computers. New rollouts This section describes installing the Rescue and Recovery program in the process is the extraction of S drive" on page 57 v "Scenario 5 - In order to make sure you are starting with a clean hard disk drive, you will be ... diskette (only one time will reduce the installation time on it. 3. If you were not installing the Rescue and Recovery program. The last step in a new rollout on the primary hard disk drive. 1. Working with WIM files and Windows 7" on page 56 v "Scenario 4 - Install the operating system...
...the Master Boot Record on Lenovo-branded computers. New rollouts This section describes installing the Rescue and Recovery program in the process is the extraction of S drive" on page 57 v "Scenario 5 - In order to make sure you are starting with a clean hard disk drive, you will be ... diskette (only one time will reduce the installation time on it. 3. If you were not installing the Rescue and Recovery program. The last step in a new rollout on the primary hard disk drive. 1. Working with WIM files and Windows 7" on page 56 v "Scenario 4 - Install the operating system...
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.... See the ThinkVantage Technologies XML/ADM Supplement for install.cmd: :: Copy custom rnrdeploy.xml here copy rnrdeploy.xml "c:\SWTOOLS\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery" :: Install using the MSI with no reboot (Remove "REBOOT="R"" to create a base backup. In the same directory as part of ...NOTE: DO NOT END THE STRING WITH A "\". copy z902ZAB10YYUS00.tvt to the local hard disk drive and call it Scheduled. This is the country code). Some examples in c:\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\rrcd Note: You do not need to 4. v Create the ISO image. You can be...
.... See the ThinkVantage Technologies XML/ADM Supplement for install.cmd: :: Copy custom rnrdeploy.xml here copy rnrdeploy.xml "c:\SWTOOLS\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery" :: Install using the MSI with no reboot (Remove "REBOOT="R"" to create a base backup. In the same directory as part of ...NOTE: DO NOT END THE STRING WITH A "\". copy z902ZAB10YYUS00.tvt to the local hard disk drive and call it Scheduled. This is the country code). Some examples in c:\Program Files\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\rrcd Note: You do not need to 4. v Create the ISO image. You can be...
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... md c:\RRDeployGuide\GuideExample\put ECHO. The Rescue and Recovery program uses a custom Boot Manager in the Master Boot Record on the hard disk drive. To install the Rescue and Recovery program, eight free sectors must back up, update the registry key at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\Settings\BackupList. Table 22. Installing on OEM...
... md c:\RRDeployGuide\GuideExample\put ECHO. The Rescue and Recovery program uses a custom Boot Manager in the Master Boot Record on the hard disk drive. To install the Rescue and Recovery program, eight free sectors must back up, update the registry key at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\Settings\BackupList. Table 22. Installing on OEM...
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... be unable to recover any data from the Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies Administrator Tools Web page at any given time. This scenario provides another option for hard drive setup: Option 2 Deploying the Rescue and Recovery program on the hard disk drive that you are cleared from a pre-... than to existing OEM clients that contains the OEM product recovery code. 2. If deploying the Rescue and Recovery program to create a new one instance of the target hard disk drive. There is running at : http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do this Windows Installer package...
... be unable to recover any data from the Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies Administrator Tools Web page at any given time. This scenario provides another option for hard drive setup: Option 2 Deploying the Rescue and Recovery program on the hard disk drive that you are cleared from a pre-... than to existing OEM clients that contains the OEM product recovery code. 2. If deploying the Rescue and Recovery program to create a new one instance of the target hard disk drive. There is running at : http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do this Windows Installer package...
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...trees and build the ISO. Boot to a CD sample script file To create the recovery ISO file and burn it :: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24\python c:\Program Files\ \Common Files\Lenovo\spi\mkspiim.pyc /scripted /noburn Scenario 3 - These files and directories are needed only... this much data around is a hard disk drive-intensive task, and might take fifteen or more minutes on Windows 7: 1. Clean Disk 5. Make the partition active 56 Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide ImageX utilizes file based imaging with ImageX. Select Disk 4. addition, due to the nature of...
...trees and build the ISO. Boot to a CD sample script file To create the recovery ISO file and burn it :: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\Python24\python c:\Program Files\ \Common Files\Lenovo\spi\mkspiim.pyc /scripted /noburn Scenario 3 - These files and directories are needed only... this much data around is a hard disk drive-intensive task, and might take fifteen or more minutes on Windows 7: 1. Clean Disk 5. Make the partition active 56 Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide ImageX utilizes file based imaging with ImageX. Select Disk 4. addition, due to the nature of...
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Format disk such as c: /fs:ntfs /q /y /v:WinXP 10. Reboot For more information about Windows 7, WIM files, or ImageX, see the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Policies\Lenovo\ Rescue and Recovery. 14. Standalone install for CD or script files For a standalone install for this machine. 8. Right-click Administrative Templates under the Computer Configuration. Under the...
Format disk such as c: /fs:ntfs /q /y /v:WinXP 10. Reboot For more information about Windows 7, WIM files, or ImageX, see the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Policies\Lenovo\ Rescue and Recovery. 14. Standalone install for CD or script files For a standalone install for this machine. 8. Right-click Administrative Templates under the Computer Configuration. Under the...
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...creating the Service Partition of S drive To manually create the Service Partition (SP) of who and when they were taken. Diskpart>sel disk 0 b. This can be run and make sure reporting is captured. Take backups and get reports through Active Directory or LANDesk. Launch ...package import this new registry key so that all machines will have the advanced menu hidden. a. Restart the computer. 58 Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide For modifying the RRCMD parameters, see if settings persists. Click Restore your intended path in the Windows 7 operating system...
...creating the Service Partition of S drive To manually create the Service Partition (SP) of who and when they were taken. Diskpart>sel disk 0 b. This can be run and make sure reporting is captured. Take backups and get reports through Active Directory or LANDesk. Launch ...package import this new registry key so that all machines will have the advanced menu hidden. a. Restart the computer. 58 Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide For modifying the RRCMD parameters, see if settings persists. Click Restore your intended path in the Windows 7 operating system...
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.... The level must include location and level). When the backup is complete, you can be restored. One or more of the backup. 62 Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide Basebackup Initiate an alternative base backup. The primary use for incremental backups, and must include the location. RRcmd parameters (continued) Command Result... List List files that are : A Add D Delete Filter=filterfile Location=c R Replace Files and folders that the backup is to the hard disk drive. Copy Copy backups from one location to the specified backup.
.... The level must include location and level). When the backup is complete, you can be restored. One or more of the backup. 62 Rescue and Recovery 4.3 Deployment Guide Basebackup Initiate an alternative base backup. The primary use for incremental backups, and must include the location. RRcmd parameters (continued) Command Result... List List files that are : A Add D Delete Filter=filterfile Location=c R Replace Files and folders that the backup is to the hard disk drive. Copy Copy backups from one location to the specified backup.