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Hello,

I can't seem to find a working link to where I can find a Recovery Disk for a windows XP Lenovo Thinkpad SL400 2743-LJU for sale. I couldn't figure out how to fix the F11 key (make it work again) so now I'm trying to just find a recovery disk for this laptop. It didn't come with one (because it's an online school laptop - they mailed it to us), so I need an updated link to where I can find one. The internet doesn't work on it, and it is really glitchy, so I just need to restore it to factory default settings. Any help to meet this goal is appreciated. I hope someone can help me!

~TechyGirl~

brchan wrote:The F11 key issue seems like a hardware issue. It should always work under any environment. For the moment, you can burn and boot up a linux live iso image on a usb/dvd drive and test the functionality there. If there are no more issues, than the culprit is Windows.

Also, I forgot to add that the "Lenovo Care" key doesn't work, either. So I can't stop start-up in order to press the F11 key in the first place. Any ideas on how to fix the Lenovo Care key would be helpful as well; I probably should have asked about that before asking about the F11 key. Do I even need the functionality of the Lenovo care key in order to use the F11 key? Thanks for replying, my father and I really need some more help with this, though.

I tried looking the Linux live iso image up on Google, I'm not sure where/how to download it, though. Do you have a link or a tutorial of some sort? That would be helpful. I have a USB; however, it's not empty. Does it have to be an empty flash drive for it to work?

Thanks!