R60 always boots into Rescue and Recovery instead into Win XP

[on_air]

Hello all,

I intended to write a backup via Thinkvantage R&R, startet from the boot menue. This fails as no target could be selected to save the backup.

After I talked to a colleague of mine, who told me to use R&R out of Windows (this way he made the initial backup) I reboot the machine via the button reboot in the top right corner. The machine rebootet but instead to start Windows Thinkvantage R&R was started again. No matter what I do, if I choose to boot from HDD Thinkvantage R&R will be started (if I choose to boot from USB od CD the system on the stick or CD will start).

I can repeat this ad infinitum, there will always start Thinkvantage R&R. I even tried to revert back to the initial backup -- to no avail

Maybe someone can tell me how to stop this circle.

Thank you in advance.

Dennis

[cche0691]

Hi on_air,

  May i know what exactly have you done to your machine? R&R will start only if harddisk problem and trying to recover or boot sector has been corrupted. Worse case you might need to rescue files from R&R and restore machine back to factory default status

Fred

[on_air]

Hi Fred,

Thank you for answering.

I manually startet R&R via the blue Think Vantage button to write a backup. As I wrote, this fails as no target could be selected to save the backup. So I tried to reboot and et voilà the loop started ...

Dennis

[Mornsgrans]

The easiest way is to boot from a bootable Linux-CD with gparted. Right-click the boot-partition (Drive C: under XP, the System_drv-partition under Vista and Win7), select "manage flags" and mark "boot".

The reboot from HDD.

[on_air · Accepted solution]

Hi,

sorry for this late response but I didn't test this earlier.

Thank you for the tip, this was the first step to solve this issue. After I changed the boot flag I was able to boot XP -- but only once. So I changed the boot flag again and I saw a notice about an unsuccessful and now pending backup job (this time I watched XP's boot process more closely . After I aborted the pending job I'm now able to boot into XP and R&R as I wish.

Thank you all for all your help.

Dennis