These days, all Thinkpads all come with a recovery partition, containing the factory loadout, which you can boot directly into and restore your hardrive to the factory condition, should your main boot-drive C: fail catastrophically.
Somewhat caught between mocking amusement, with a dash of irritation. Back in '98, I was building my own dual Pentium-Pro 200MHz workstations, with 3D Labs video cards that on average cost more that he rest of the system. In those days, this was our only route to enter the SGI/ALIAS & Clipper/Microstation arena. What I'm gettin to, is the notion of imaging my first complete install on a hidden active primary partition on an EIFS bus, NTFS file structure. Those days, to recover a completely crashed boot drive, was to stick a bootablr 3.5" floppy, which bootstrapped you into the afore mentioned image drive, and you'd restore. This was in 1998, people, and IBM/Lenovo have now got this but with some issues.
Firstly, in order to use the most of my rather small but luddicrouly fast 128Gb SSD, I've off loaded said contents of the recovery partiton, but not before creating a bootable USB 3.0 64Gb .
Which leads my back to full cycle - articles abound about transferring ISO to USB, but not the opposite direction.
As in, I'd like to take what's on that recovery thumb stick and create an off-site backup, both cloud and my external SSD.
Seems simple enough, but from what I've been reading, the sector+block layout is different from solid state memory vs a spinning disk.
So if creating an ISO of that boot stick is a bad idea, what's the more efficient way? Yes, I'd likely be able to open a command window (ie DOS), and use xcopy.....
Thoughts anyone? not new to hardware or software fundamentals, clearly, just not current, and need the cliff notes answer. Please........TS
Somewhat caught between mocking amusement, with a dash of irritation. Back in '98, I was building my own dual Pentium-Pro 200MHz workstations, with 3D Labs video cards that on average cost more that he rest of the system. In those days, this was our only route to enter the SGI/ALIAS & Clipper/Microstation arena. What I'm gettin to, is the notion of imaging my first complete install on a hidden active primary partition on an EIFS bus, NTFS file structure. Those days, to recover a completely crashed boot drive, was to stick a bootablr 3.5" floppy, which bootstrapped you into the afore mentioned image drive, and you'd restore. This was in 1998, people, and IBM/Lenovo have now got this but with some issues.
Firstly, in order to use the most of my rather small but luddicrouly fast 128Gb SSD, I've off loaded said contents of the recovery partiton, but not before creating a bootable USB 3.0 64Gb .
Which leads my back to full cycle - articles abound about transferring ISO to USB, but not the opposite direction.
As in, I'd like to take what's on that recovery thumb stick and create an off-site backup, both cloud and my external SSD.
Seems simple enough, but from what I've been reading, the sector+block layout is different from solid state memory vs a spinning disk.
So if creating an ISO of that boot stick is a bad idea, what's the more efficient way? Yes, I'd likely be able to open a command window (ie DOS), and use xcopy.....
Thoughts anyone? not new to hardware or software fundamentals, clearly, just not current, and need the cliff notes answer. Please........TS
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