Lenovo ThinkVantage (Rescue and Recovery 4.5) - Manual (Page 51)

Chapter 4. Best practices
This chapter provides best practice scenarios to install and configure the Rescue and Recovery program for
your enterprise. Within this chapter, you will find the following topics:
• “Scenario 1 - New rollouts” on page 45
• “Scenario 2 - Installing with WIM files and Windows 7” on page 48
• “Scenario 3 - Standalone install for CD or script files” on page 49
• “Scenario 4 - Working with Active Directory and ADM files” on page 49
• “Scenario 5 - Performing a Bare Metal Restore from an Admin Backup” on page 50
• “Scenario 6 - Manually creating the Service Partition of S drive” on page 50
Scenario 1 - New rollouts
This section describes installing the Rescue and Recovery program in a new rollout on Lenovo-branded
computers.
Preparing the hard disk drive
The first step to consider when deploying a system is preparing the hard disk drive of your donor system.
In order to make sure you are starting with a clean hard disk drive, you must clean out the Master Boot
Record on the primary hard disk drive.
1. Remove all storage devices, such as second hard disk drives, USB hard disk drives, USB memory
keys and PC Card Memory from the donor system, except the primary hard disk that you are going
to install Windows on.
Attention: Running this command will erase the entire contents of the target hard disk drive. After
running, you will be unable to recover any data from the target hard disk drive.
2. Create a DOS boot diskette and place the cleandrv.exe file on it.
3. Boot the diskette (only one storage device attached). At the DOS prompt, type the following command:
CLEANDRV /HDD=0
4. Install the operating system and applications. Build your donor system as though you were not installing
the Rescue and Recovery program. The last step in the process is to install the Rescue and Recovery
program.
Installing
This first step in the installation process is the extraction of the InstallShield executable to the c:\SWTOOLS
directory. If you are going to install the Rescue and Recovery program on multiple systems, performing this
process one time will reduce the installation time on each machine by roughly one-half.
1. Assuming that the installation file is located in the root of the C drive, create a file EXE_EXTRACT.cmd,
which will extract the file z936zisXXXXus00.exe for Windows 7 (where XXXX is the build ID) to the
C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr directory:
:: This package will extract the WWW EXE to the directory c:\SWTOOLS for an
:: administrative installation.
@ECHO OFF
:: This is the name of the EXE (Without the .EXE)
set BUILDID=z936zisXXXXus00.exe
:: This is the drive letter for the z936zisXXXXus00.exe
:: NOTE: DO NOT END THE STRING WITH A "\". IT IS ASSUMED TO NOT BE THERE.
SET SOURCEDRIVE=C:
:: Create the RRTemp directory on the HDD for the exploded WWW EXMD c:\SWTOOLS
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