Chapter 4. Best Practices; Scenario 1 - New Rollouts; Preparing The Hard Disk Drive; Installing - Lenovo ThinkCentre A62 Deployment Manual

Chapter 4. Best practices

This chapter provides best practice scenarios to install and configure the Rescue
and Recovery program 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 54
v "Scenario 3 - Installing with WIM files and Windows 7" on page 56
v "Scenario 4 - Standalone install for CD or script files" on page 57
v "Scenario 5 - Working with Active Directory and ADM files" on page 57
v "Scenario 6 - Performing a Bare Metal Restore from an Admin Backup" on page
v "Scenario 7 - Manually creating the Service Partition of S drive" on page 58

Scenario 1 - New rollouts

This section describes installing the Rescue and Recovery program in a new rollout
on Lenovo-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
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
4. Install the operating system and applications. Build your donor system as

Installing

This first step in the installation process is the extraction of the InstallShield
executable to the c:\SWTOOLS directory. If you are going to install the Rescue and
Recovery program 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
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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.
the following command:
CLEANDRV /HDD=0
though you were not installing the Rescue and Recovery program. The last step
in the process is to install the Rescue and Recovery program.
file EXE_EXTRACT.cmd, which will extract the file z902zisXXXXus00.exe for
Windows 7 (where XXXX is the build ID) to the C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\rnr
directory:
:: This package will extract the WWW EXE to the directory c:\SWTOOLS for an
:: administrative installation.
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