Backups make us feel all warm and fuzzy. They’re great. Whether on-site, off-site or just on a jump drive, if we have a backup we feel like we can sleep better at night.
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Restoring and recovery are the thing. The actual ability to recover our files and systems is what should make us feel at ease.
For Instance.
I am currently trying to restore a Lenovo tablet to factory defaults. Nothing special, just a factory reset. The “ThinkVantage” crap is killing me. I’ve tried simply running it from the blue button, but it asks for a password to a domain that doesn’t exist, in addition to not recognizing the proper Windows password. Can’t restore.
I’ve tried using the recovery CD’s labled 1 of 6, 2 of 6, etc. After I put in disc 6, it finishes and asks for disc 7. Can’t restore.
I’ve tried giving up on the tablet software and just installing Windows from an OEM CD that I have. Windows can’t find the hard drive because it doesn’t have the proper SATA drivers and the machine doesn’t have a floppy drive, so the drives are almost impossible to load from the F6.
Now I’m trying to burn recovery CD’s from another tablet the client has hoping that these will work. If they don’t I’ll have to call Lenovo. I’m almost positive the machine is out of warranty and they will tell me the recovery disk is $39.99 and they can’t ship it overnight. Almost positive.

Oy.

Whatever your situation, make sure you can backup AND recover your files. Have a backup plan in the event that doesn’t work. Think it through. You’ll thank yourself.