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Chapter 5. Best practices
This chapter provides best practice scenarios to install and configure Rescue and Recovery for your
enterprise. Within this chapter, you will find the following topics:
• “Scenario 1 - New rollouts” on page 75
• “Scenario 2 - Installing on OEM systems” on page 80
• “Scenario 3 - Installing on Type 12 service partition” on page 82
• “Scenario 4 - Installing with WIM files and Windows Vista” on page 83
• “Scenario 5 - Standalone install for CD or script files” on page 83
• “Scenario 6 - Working with Active Directory and ADM files” on page 83
• “Scenario 7 - Performing a Bare Metal Restore from an Admin Backup” on page 84
• “Scenario 8 - Manually creating the Service Partition of S drive” on page 85
Scenario 1 - New rollouts
This section describes installing Rescue and Recovery in a new rollout on Lenovo-branded and
IBM
® -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
Rescue and Recovery. The last step in the process is to install Rescue and Recovery.
Installing
This first step in the installation process is the extraction of the InstallShield executable to the C:\RRTEMP
directory. If you are going to install Rescue and Recovery 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 z696zisXXXXus00.exe for Windows XP or the file z695zisXXXXus00.exe for
Windows Vista (where XXXX is the build ID) to the C:\RRTEMP directory:
:: This package will extract the WWW EXE to the directory c:\RRTemp for an
:: administrative installation.
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