USB hard drive not recognized in rescue and recovery
After having successfully copied all my backups on an external hard drive, now that I have restored my T61 to its factory condition, rescue and recovery refuses to overprinting of the reader. I have made sure it is connected before turning on my laptop, and I also tried to connect only once I'm inside R & R, but nothing makes no difference. I'm desperate to seize my old files so I can continue to work, any help would be really appreciated. Thank you! Sarah
Me again: by the way, I forgot to mention that my resettled version of Vista is quite happy to recognize the external hard drive - as R & R before I started the restoration process... Sarah
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