Thinkpads Forum

What are the reasons to make you eligble for a free recovery disk from Lenovo?

If you have a relatively modern Thinkpad, and if your recovery partition is intact, you should be able to burn your own recovery discs. If you accidentally erased that partition, I don't think that's a good enough reason for a free set of discs from Lenovo.

pianowizard wrote:If you have a relatively modern Thinkpad, and if your recovery partition is intact, you should be able to burn your own recovery discs. If you accidentally erased that partition, I don't think that's a good enough reason for a free set of discs from Lenovo.

If you have a university laptop with a full lenovo warranty, and the crapware/image they put on it prohibits you from being able to burn discs yourself, then that entitles you to a set of discs.

This is literally how I got my free set. I called them up, explained my situation, the guy had me try to use the built in recovery system, and when that failed he sent me the discs. Would you believe, I actually had to erase my service partition before I could reformat my laptop, because it was programmed such that it wouldn't allow users to format the hdd.

tell them your recovery partition is corrupt

they have to send you a set..