Lenovo ThinkPad X301

2015-10-31

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hardware / linux

Hacking

Windows

BIOS+MBR (BIOS+GPT is not supported in Windows)
ThinkVantage System Update – downloads data updates for software, drivers and BIOS from a Lenovo server directly over the Internet without requiring specific user knowledge of where the package is located or if it is needed by the target system (requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4).
set DHCPv6 client DUID in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/services/TCPIP6/Parameters/Dhcpv6DUID ~~~

Windows 8-10 64-bit

AuthenTec AES2810 works with Windows 7 64-bit drivers from the Lenovo Support
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD cannot be installed by any method
- Intel drivers are only for Windows 7 64-bit and lower
- disabling integrity checks and enabling testing mode does not help
- alternative drivers for Windows 8 does not work

Windows Clean-up

disable Volume Shadow Copy (Stínová kopie svazku, in Czech) service and stop System Restore (, in Czech) service
perform Windows Update Cleanup
limit Windows File Protection cache size (Windows XP/2000/2003 only) by running gpedit.msc and setting Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesSystemWindows File Protection to enabled with a particular limit in MB
remove files from /Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Download
disable hibernate file:

powercfg -h off ~~~

delete resources associated with mounted WIM images that are corrupt:

dism /Cleanup-Wim ~~~

perform clean-up and recovery operations on the running operating system image with removal of backup files created during service pack installation

dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /spsuperseded ~~~

perform clean-up and recovery operations on the running operating system image with removal of all superseded versions of every component in the component store (Windows 8.1/2012R2 only)

dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase ~~~

perform clean-up on Manifest cache in the component store (winsxs), however, be careful

net stop trustedinstaller takeown /f %windir%/winsxs/ManifestCache/* icacls %windir%/winsxs/ManifestCache/* /GRANT administrators:F del /q %windir%/winsxs/ManifestCache/* ~~~

remove components by NTLite

Linux

Cloning HDD over Network

by NTFSClone (need to be terminated after “syncing” message)

destination$ nc -l -p 9000 | ntfsclone –restore-image –overwrite /dev/sda1 - source$ ntfsclone –save-image –output - /dev/sda1 | nc [destination-ip] 9000 ~~~

by creating new partitions with the same UUIDs

source$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ destination$ mkswap -L swap -U [swap-uuid] /dev/sda2 destination$ mkfs.ext4 -L / -U [/-uuid] destination$ mkfs.ext4 -L /home -U [/home-uuid] ~~~

by TAR

destination$ nc -l -p 9000 | tar vxSps source$ tar vcSp . | nc [destination-ip] 9000 ~~~

by restoring Grub2 MBR record

destination$ mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 destination$ mount /dev /mnt/sda3/dev -o bind destination$ mount /proc /mnt/sda3/proc -o bind destination$ mount /sys /mnt/sda3/sys -o bind destination$ chroot /mnt/sda3 /bin/bash destination-chroot$ update-grub2 destination-chroot$ grub-install /dev/sda ~~~