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Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. If she purchases one recovery disc from Lenovo, will she be able to reinstall Vista on both machines? Please use it responsively.
This is a very good piece of software. What medai? These machines don't ship with recovery media. You can purchase a set from Lenovo, but if you have a burner on your laptop you can and should make your own. You only get to do this once. Some kind of silly MS licensing thing.
Not to say you can't copy the resulting media - and you should. You will get to do it again if you upgrade the rescue and recovery software at some point. What can I say. It's XP.
To its credit, it isn't Vista. At least Lenovo makes these laptops available with XP installed and all the appropriate drives in place. In fact, they recognize that even folks who bought a ThinkPad with Vista installed may want to 'down license' to XP:. This laptop should be pretty quick. It is reasonably quick once it is booted. Booting seems a little slow and shutdown is irritatingly slow. Occasionally really slow.
Most of this is likely due to all the crap that Lenovo starts up at boot time. I'm gradually eliminating the useless garbage.
The shutdown issues may be caused by applications that don't release resources correctly at logout. Microsoft has a tool that might help with this. It can force the release of resources maybe and log the bad actors so they can be dealt with:. I haven't been able to find out WTF this does. Things seem to run OK with it turned off I was able to improve shutdown times by editing the registry and changing how long XP waits for services to finish before killing them.
On my P4 deskside box, this value was , which equates to a 20 second wait. On the T61, it was set to ! No idea why. I have changed this to and it usually shortens shutdown to around 30 seconds. Occasionally not - and I haven't figured out why yet. If you fiddle with this, beware. You risk hosing the registry. Making it too short could force terminate services that were still legitimately shutting down.
With the 7 cell battery - the largest available in this screen size - I can get hours. Closer to 2 with the DVD drive running. The all had the available discrete graphics option, so that's no excuse for the T61's poor battery life. Lenovo ships these laptops with a hidden partition that contains rescue and recovery tools as well as a full image of the factory drive configuration.
On my machine it used about 5G of drive space. It is bootable, and has utilities that can hopefully access an un-bootable Windows partition. It can access the network for downloading repair files and uploading salvaged files. It can also access USB devices for those purposes. It can save the entire drive as a backup image; that can also be done from within Windows. All that is wonderful, but it is rather fragile.
In order to maintain the service partition's bootability via the ThinkVantage button one must not touch the MBR boot code. There is some kind of magic here that doesn't tolerate fiddling. If the MBR is replaced, even with a 'vanilla' Microsoft-style boot record, the ThinkVantage button won't boot the service partion.
It will still be bootable from other boot loaders - grub for instance. This gets difficult when arranging a multi-boot machine.
There are techinques for multibooting using the Microsoft boot mechanism in the Windows partition. Here's one. I haven't tried it. I'm more comfortable with grub, the open-source 'Grand Unified Boot Loader' so I fiddled with using that.
What does work is to install grub in a primary partition and set that partition active so BIOS boots it in the default case. This is easy when installing Linux - you can specify that grub goes only in the Linux partition's boot sector. With a Solaris install, it is necessary to set the Solaris partition active before the installation, or the Solaris installer will replace the MBR with a vanilla one.
Solaris grub will boot OK, but the ThinkVantage service boot is lost. After many re-images back to factory state, I figured out the Solaris trick above, and had a multiboot machine that could still bring up the service partition via the ThinkVantage button. The Windows rescue and recovery utility couldn't find it any more. I couldn't make restore images of XP from within XP. Braindead indeed.
Presumably it was confused by the additional partitions. Losing the ThinkVantage service boot ability wasn't a big deal, but losing the ability to make ongoing backup images of XP was. Some notes about that here: T61 VMWare. Using the Lenovo utility in XP to make bootable backup images of the running system - to an external USB drive - is really useful.
It's fairly quick to save and restore around 30 min each when around 50G of the drive is in use and encourages good backup habits.
I let the updater download and install it and it seemed to find the service partition correctly. I also made a full drive backup to an external USB drive that included my current running XP configuration and the service partiton - or so I thought. See below. I have had occastion to do a full restore from the image I saved to USB drive. Both to recover from my experiments, and to move to another hard drive.
It doens't contain the factory restore image any more. That's the bad news. The good news is that it's now less than 1G. I don't know where I lost the factory image part of the service partition in my saved image.
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