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Consider the following scenarios and best practices to ensure Rescue and Recovery
provides the desired functions and features:
Best practices for hard drive setup: Option 1
This scenario covers new image deployments that include Rescue and Recovery. If
deploying Rescue and Recovery to existing OEM clients that contain OEM product
recovery code, run the following test to determine if the OEM product recovery
code interferes with Rescue and Recovery:
1.
Set up a test client with the image that contains the OEM product recovery
code.
2.
Install Rescue and Recovery. If eight free sectors in the Master Boot Record
(MBR) do not exist as a result of the OEM product recovery code, you will see
the following error message:
Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows
Installer package. A program run as part of the
setup did not finish as expected. Contact your
personnel or package vendor.
If you are using an OEM image for the base operating system, ensure that the
Master Boot Record does not contain the product recovery data. You can do this in
the following way:
Attention:
Running the following 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.
1.
Use the cleandrv.exe available from the Rescue and Recovery at:
to ensure all sectors are cleared from the Master Boot Record on
the hard disk drive that you plan to use to create your base image.
2.
Package the image according to your procedures for deployment.
Best practices for hard drive setup: Option 2
Deploying the Rescue and Recovery program on existing clients requires some
effort and planning. This scenario provides another option for a hard drive setup.
Note:
If you receive Error 1722 and need to create eight free sectors, call the
Lenovo help desk to report the error and obtain further instructions.
Creating a bootable Rescue and Recovery CD
Rescue and Recovery builds and burns the rescue media CD from the current
service area contents, rather than from a pre-assembled ISO image. However, if an
appropriate ISO (.iso) image is already present, because it was preloaded or
because it had been built before, that image will be used to burn the CD, rather
than to create a new one.
Because of the resources involved, only one instance of the CD burning application
may be running at any given time. If it is running, attempting to start a second
instance will produce an error message and the second instance will abort. In
addition, due to the nature of accessing protected areas of the hard drive, only
administrators can create the ISO. These files and directories are included on the
recovery CD:
v
minint
v
preboot
v
win51
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