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recovery cd?
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:09 am
by pheebz
i tried to order a recovery cd from ibm/lenovo australia but since t60 did not come with microsoft windows liecene they could not send me out 1. was wondering if anyone knew where else i could get 1 off the net.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:00 pm
by Kyocera
This does not make sense. They won't send you a set free unless you are under warranty and have some problem with the machine. They will send a set if you pay for them though, not sure how much it would be.
There is no place that I know of to download the images of the CD's.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:13 pm
by syedj
Does Lenovo sell machines without the Microsoft tax (read without any Windows version pre-installed - aka OS-less)?
If your machine did in-fact come without Windows license how can you expect to have a free copy of Windows by using the recovery media if Lenovo were to ship them to you?
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:48 pm
by pianowizard
syedj wrote:Does Lenovo sell machines without the Microsoft tax (read without any Windows version pre-installed - aka OS-less)?
Yes, a few models of the T60/p are "Linux-ready" and only come with a DOS license, which is pretty much useless.
pheebz, what's the 7-character product code of your T60?
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:53 pm
by pheebz
i was gonna pay for a recovery cd ($90aud) but because it was not windows liecence they couldnt send one. so now my comp has no drivers.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:22 pm
by syedj
I think one thing we are missing is that the price Lenovo asks for the recovery media does not include the price of the Window license which gives you the right to install and use that Windows version from that media on exactly one machine at a time.
As far as drivers are concerned, once you have your favorite version of Windows version installed, you can directly go to Lenovo's website and download pretty much all the drivers you need/want. You can even use a different machine to download the drivers and then use a USB flash drive or some other medium (e.g. CDROM) to install to your laptop. Even for people who have the recovery media but want to install a clean copy of Windows use the same method for at least the ethernet or wireless driver and the rest can be downloaded directly on the target machine.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:24 am
by yves
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:15 am
by NS
Can post the R & R disks request in our market place forum. I do know that BillMorrow has a T60p.
Maybe you can send a PM to BillMorrow and buy the recovery disks from him.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:10 am
by sr. Technician
I think any T60 recovery CD set will do. Been my experience.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:43 am
by steveg47
sr. Technician wrote:I think any T60 recovery CD set will do. Been my experience.
Yes, for XP they're all the same except for the language.
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:06 pm
by pianowizard
sr. Technician wrote:I think any T60 recovery CD set will do.
But it would be illegal. The T60 XP recovery discs should only be used on machines with an XP COA sticker.