Hmm, recovery CDs from IBM are CD-Rs

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Kenn · #1 Post by **Kenn** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:22 pm

First time I really looked at them. Too bad, I was hoping they would be pressed (last longer for archival). I guess I could have just used 8 CDRs and made my own set. Oh well, I'm still glad they fedex'd them so quickly.

Did everyone else who ordered them also get CDRs?

atlacatl · #2 Post by **atlacatl** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:35 pm

Kenn wrote:First time I really looked at them. Too bad, I was hoping they would be pressed (last longer for archival). I guess I could have just used 8 CDRs and made my own set. Oh well, I'm still glad they fedex'd them so quickly.

Did everyone else who ordered them also get CDRs?

?

What type were you expecting?

Logi7 · #3 Post by **Logi7** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:39 pm

oh [censored], i just looked at mine (justin ordered them never used them) and theyre recorded too

thats pretty dumb... i agree that they shoudl be pressed, its kinda unprofessional

Kenn · #4 Post by **Kenn** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:19 am

I mentioned in the original post that they should be pressed, like every other computer manufacturer (or any CD product maker, period) gives. Wouldn't you feel a little upset if you bought a music CD and found it was a dye-burned CD-R?

I am grateful that they were sent free, but I wanted the IBM copies so I could have an archival set that wouldn't degrade in a relatively small amount of time. Access IBM lets us burn our own copies, if I knew IBM sent out CD-Rs I would have made my own and not troubled them.

sktn77a · #5 Post by **sktn77a** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:45 am

The first set of recovery CDs I got for my 1 year old T40 were burned but subsequent sets for other computers were pressed. I figured they sent out early recovery CD sets that had been burned prior to setting up a pressing facility/process.

hhy2k · #6 Post by **hhy2k** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:40 pm

May I ask how can I write my own CD set with IBM Access?

Thanks!

T40p

eriqesque · #7 Post by **eriqesque** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:47 pm

The ones I received are pressed

nsuperman86 · #8 Post by **nsuperman86** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:19 pm

what number can i contect to get a set sent over to me?

hhy2k · #9 Post by **hhy2k** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:35 pm

1 800 426 7378

The set is free if you made your purchase within 30 days!

MadeInJapan · #10 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:53 pm

Also free if your Hard Drive doesn't pass the driver fitness test (download the file from the IBM site) and your machine is still under warranty. This is what happened to me last week....they sent me a new HD and a set of recovery discs.

Now...does it matter that the CD code and the actual code in windows XP is different?

hmphargh · #11 Post by **hmphargh** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:22 am

just ordered mine...ill tell you tomorrow what they are

sktn77a · #12 Post by **sktn77a** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:22 pm

Got mine today for the T42. They're pressed. If they have a printed paper label, then I think they're burned. If it's printer directly onto the plastic, then I think they're pressed.

hhy2k · #13 Post by **hhy2k** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:55 pm

ordered yesterday afternoon, came today morning. 4+1 CD set, printed for T40p.

Kenn · #14 Post by **Kenn** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:11 pm

sktn77a wrote:Got mine today for the T42. They're pressed. If they have a printed paper label, then I think they're burned. If it's printer directly onto the plastic, then I think they're pressed.

Nope, mine have the text printed directly onto the media, and they're still clearly burns - you can see the blue shade of the color-change dye on the back. It's even printed on the disc "recorded in USA".

stgreek · #15 Post by **stgreek** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:38 am

Any T40 owner here in the UK? I have received two sets of t40 XP recovery discs, and the 1st disc is corrupted in both. I assume the same will happen with th 3rd, so if anyone has a decent set I would be happy to buy a copy of the 1st disc from them.

Stavros

sktn77a · #16 Post by **sktn77a** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:08 am

Nope, mine have the text printed directly onto the media, and they're still clearly burns - you can see the blue shade of the color-change dye on the back. It's even printed on the disc "recorded in USA".

Oh, well, whatcha gonna do

Kenn · #17 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:26 am

sktn77a wrote:
Nope, mine have the text printed directly onto the media, and they're still clearly burns - you can see the blue shade of the color-change dye on the back. It's even printed on the disc "recorded in USA".
Oh, well, whatcha gonna do

Not delete the IBM partition, for one

hhy2k · #18 Post by **hhy2k** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:45 am

Yepp, that's a very good idea to keep the service partition. I don't really know what many ppl has against this hidden 3 GB partition. Isn't this 5x better than a recovery CD? Why you wanna get rid of it anyway? Having more space, an extra 3 GB? Come on, get a life! I think the recovery partition is far better than other companies recovery solution. Sure it does not save you from having a disc package for the case of a HDD faliure, but that's rarely the case anyway... and if that happens they send you a HDD and the disks overnight anyway.

Beside this I'm going to save the CD's images on a DVD, just in case... but I seem to be very paranoid already with a hard drive which has a recovery partition plus a recovery disk set, plus a DVD containing the recovery CD set...

I should get a life too i think and just use this beautiful laptop as is...

my dime

t40p

Westin · #19 Post by **Westin** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:28 pm

If I format the main partition and install linux and stuff, but I dont delete the hidden partition... can I at a later time use the hidden partition to reinstall factory default?

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