Free ThinkPad R50/R51 Recovery CDs

[cnelson]

I have the following set of five Recovery CDs titled "Product Recovery CD for ThinkPad Type 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1836". These are various models of the R50, R50p, and R51.
- Disc 1 of 5, March 2003, P/N 01R9086, XP-P, EN, FRU P/N 01R9062
- Disc 2 of 5, March 2003, P/N 01R9110, XP-P, EN, FRU P/N 01R9062
- Disc 3 of 5, March 2003, P/N 01R9134, XP-P, EN, FRU P/N 01R9062
- Disc 4 of 5, March 2003, P/N 01R9158, XP-P, EN, FRU P/N 01R9062
- Disc 5 of 5, March 2003, P/N 01R9456, XP-P, EN, FRU P/N 01R9062

I have never used the CDs, but they appear to be fine and were stored in an office environment. They are available to anyone who wants them and will pay for the shipping (from ZIP code 87111).

[AllTPedOut]

Pm sent

[cnelson]

CDs have been claimed. I have ISO images of the CDs if anyone is interested.

[tmiskiew]

I need your ISO images. Please help!

[Hemdean]

Hi
Ditto the above - Much needed
Thanks

[Al-X]

Hey,

I need the disks also...
R50 Type 1830.

Can you send me a download link please?

Thanks

[eyestrain]

If still available, I can also use the link to ISOs. (R51, and may work with my x40.)

Thanks.

[mike99c]

Hi there
Could also really do with the ISOs, R51 is not listed at lenovorecovery.com, bit of a pain
Please
Cheers

[damod]

Hi there,

I would like an ISO Image of a Recovery-CD for my ThinkPad R50 1830, too. If that is still possible! It whould be greatly appreceated!

Thanks in advance!

[r51]

Hello,

I would also like an ISO Image of a Recovery-CD for my ThinkPad R51 1830, If possible. Thanks

[acewarlock]

I only need disk 1 ISO as mine stopped working.

Thank you

[wkw1]

It would be nice to have them.. Just would have to see if they contain a lot of bloatware or not.. I'll PM you

[WA2SI]

I would love to have an R51 recovery disc. I have both a 14" and a 15" R51. Feel free to PM me. Thanks so much.

Bert

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[ShortChop]

I would love the Recovery CD's as well. I read from another post this will work on a T42 as well. I'm trying to fix a laptop for a semi homeless guy who has no $$ for discs.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

-Sc

[BillMorrow]

i sent the OP a PM..
if he will upload those ISO's i will host them for anyone who needs a copy..

[sarbin]

pm'ed you, Bill...

[Easy Wind]

A while back I emailed the OP to get these ISO's and will confirm that they work, or at least worked fine on a T41 machine and a T42 machine.

Only troublesome part was getting the machine (Windows) activated immediately after the restore completed. Had to boot into Safe Mode to get the nic driver installed, then everything went well afterwards.

Thanks!!

[Elwarpo]

Is it still possible to get these disks, I have an old T42P I am trying to give to a neighbor's kid (they can not afford to buy a laptop).

[Easy Wind]

Unless someone else beats me to it, I can locate them and put them in either dropbox or google drive. Might take me a day or so though

[Elwarpo]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[acewarlock]

How would I get the Disk 1 ISO?

Thanks

[Easy Wind]

I'm currently uploading these to my DB folder. Links are here

edit:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w8lzvmwp3vtj3tj/CYh7Kh2iF9

[Elwarpo]

Thank you very much

[acewarlock]

Thanks for the Link.

William

[TRS-80]

It would be nice to have them.. Just would have to see if they contain a lot of bloatware or not.. I'll PM you

This is what I would like to know as well. I have been looking for an OEM installation ISO, and I am guessing this has all the needed drivers as well. But I don't want any of the other Lenovo / IBM "utilities" (crap and bloatware).

FYI, I am downloading all 5 of these to my server should that DropBox link ever disappear. And I will try and remember to report back on my findings, if no one chimes in before then.

[rkawakami]

From what I can see from the DropBox links, these are copies of the original restore disk set. So they will contain "bloatware" to some extent. It's fairly easy to remove stuff (Norton AV, excepted from my experience). After installation, you should probably run Service Pack updates as well. Once you get the system to your liking, clone or backup it up so you'll have a better starting point when you have to re-build the system again.

[TRS-80]

From what I can see from the DropBox links, these are copies of the original restore disk set. So they will contain "bloatware" to some extent. It's fairly easy to remove stuff (Norton AV, excepted from my experience). After installation, you should probably run Service Pack updates as well. Once you get the system to your liking, clone or backup it up so you'll have a better starting point when you have to re-build the system again.

I have not done this yet on a Thinkpad. I had some more specific questions about it in another thread about how to do recovery process here:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 78#p726778

Would you mind chiming in over there anything else you may know about this?

[Easy Wind]

It's fairly easy to remove stuff (Norton AV, excepted from my experience). Once you get the system to your liking, clone or backup it up so you'll have a better starting point when you have to re-build the system again.

that is exactly what I did with these ISO's