Updating, Enabling the rescue and recovery desktop, Enabling – Lenovo THINKPAD Z60M User Manual

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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

incremental

backup

on

the

system

and

identify

that

backup

by

name

by

performing

the

following

steps:

1.

Create

a

FORCE_BU.CMD

file

and

push

it

down

to

your

target

systems.

2.

Launch

the

FORCE_BU.CMD

file

once

it

is

on

the

target

systems.

The

contents

of

the

FORCE_BU.CMD

file

are:

::

Force

a

backup

now

"%RR%rrcmd"

backup

location=L

name="Backup

Before

XP-SP2

Update"

Enabling

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

desktop

After

realizing

the

benefits

of

Rescue

and

Recovery

for

a

period

of

time,

you

may

want

to

benefit

from

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment.

For

demonstration

purposes,

a

sample

UPDATE_RRE.CMD

script

is

provided

in

the

following

section

that

will

extract

the

control

file

for

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment,

which

you

can

edit

and

then

put

back

into

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment

using

rrutil.exe.

See

“Using

RRUTIL.EXE”

on

page

25

for

more

information.

To

modify

the

Predesktop

Area,

the

UPDATE_RRE.CMD

script

demonstrates

several

processes:

v

Use

rrutil.exe

to

get

a

file

from

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment.

The

files

to

be

extracted

from

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment

are

defined

by

in

file

getlist.txt.

v

Create

a

directory

structure

to

put

files

back

into

the

Predesktop

Area

after

editing

the

appropriate

file.

v

Make

a

copy

of

the

file

for

safe

keeping

and

then

edit

it.

In

this

example,

you

want

to

change

the

home

page

that

is

opened

when

an

end

user

clicks

the

Open

Browser

button

in

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment.

The

Web

page

http://www.lenovo.com/thinkvantage

opens.

To

make

the

change,

when

Notepad

opens

with

the

pdaguien.ini

file:

1.

Change

the

line:

button13

=

8,

"Open

browser",

Internet.bmp,

1,

1,

0,

%sysdrive%\Preboot\Opera\Opera.EXE,

http://www.pc.lenovo.com/cgi-

bin/access_IBM.cgi?version=4&link=gen_support&country=__

COUNTRY__&language=__LANGUAGE__

TO

button13

=

8,

"Open

browser",

Internet.bmp,

1,

1,

0,

%sysdrive%\Preboot\Opera\Opera.EXE,

http://www.lenovo.com/thinkvantage

2.

Put

the

new

version

into

the

directory

structure

for

placing

files

into

the

Rescue

and

Recovery

environment.

For

details,

refer

to

“Using

RRUTIL.EXE”

on

page

25.

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\BackupList.

94

Rescue

and

Recovery

Deployment

Guide

Version

4.1

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