Lenovo ThinkPad R61i - Manual (Page 83)

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:
v “Scenario 1 - New rollouts”
v “Scenario 2 - Installing on OEM systems” on page 78
v “Scenario 3 - Installing on Type 12 service partition” on page 80
v “Scenario 4 - Installing with WIM files and Windows Vista” on page 81
v “Scenario 5 - Standalone install for CD or script files” on page 81
v “Scenario 6 - Working with Active Directory and ADM files” on page 81
v “Scenario 7 - Performing a Bare Metal Restore from an Admin Backup” on page
82
v “Scenario 8 - Manually creating the Service Partition of S drive” on page 83
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 z652zisXXXXus00.exe for
Windows XP or the file z633zisXXXXus00.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
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