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Hi all,

I will receive my new T60 on Monday morning. I am really very excited.
To become a happy owner and to make my machine problem free at work, what should I do after opening the box. Is there anything that I should take care of before it is running.
I am an outreach nurse and I need the laptop for communication with my centre to keep my clients' profile updated while on the road and at home.
I am very new to using laptop.
Thank you for your expert advice.

Dennis

I have a new T60 coming Monday too, The first thing I plan to do is make some recovery disks:

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=59

The best use of the first five minutes of ownership is your investment in creating a Recovery Disk. While you are at it, make two. Keep one home, travel with the other.

Anyone know if you can still call tech support and request these disks for free in the first 30 days? I think that was the case when I bought my T40P years ago.

If you do it yourself, whats the process? I have heard its like 7 disks? Does the system have a process thats clear for doing this or do you have to know what files you need "hunt and peck".

When I say recovery disk, its the boot up and all the default apps that came with machine. Are you guys just talking about a boot disk?.

I just got my new T60 Wend and it will allow you to create multiple Rescue and Recovery Startup disks that let you get to applications to restore data or get to the rescue/recover whole system to scratch from the dedicated partition. Plus it has a web browser to let you check waranty status other system configurations, let you get into the bios. But the system will only let you create one full 7 disk set of Rescue and Recovery disks that contains the OS and all applications, then it will give you a message saying OS licensing only lets you make one copy, this is all managed through one application and no hunting and pecking.
Just my experience, my t42 doesn't/didn't have the RR on it.

Thanks for the replies.

Can I make all the Recovery disk in one DVD since my machine comes with a recordable DVD drive.

I have bought a Kingston 1gb ram today, should I add it after the first set up of my laptop or plug it in just after I open the box.

I can't wait for my new work companion.


Thanks

Here's the "I just ordered a new T60" thread

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=21451

CatKing wrote:Thanks for the replies.

Can I make all the Recovery disk in one DVD since my machine comes with a recordable DVD drive.

I have bought a Kingston 1gb ram today, should I add it after the first set up of my laptop or plug it in just after I open the box.

I can't wait for my new work companion.


Thanks

be careful when doing it in to dvd !!!

if you have DVD recordable, recue and recovery still make you burn 2 discs !!!!!

Disk 1 MUST BE CD then, the 2nd Disk can be DVD!!! if you don't do it that way you will not be able to recover from a serious problem or literaly won't work at all!!

be careful when doing it in to dvd !!!

if you have DVD recordable, recue and recovery still make you burn 2 discs !!!!!

Disk 1 MUST BE CD then, the 2nd Disk can be DVD!!! if you don't do it that way you will not be able to recover from a serious problem or literaly won't work at all!![/quote]

Thanks for your advice.

I really don't know this result otherwise I just stand there with the recovery dvd if there was something happened.

jeffm wrote:I have a new T60 coming Monday too, The first thing I plan to do is make some recovery disks:

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=59

This is news to me, and I have been using my "new" T60 for 2 months now. Can I still do this effectively?

Yes, the recovery disks can be created after first use, if you haven't already. In the event that you want to put things back to factory settings i.e. wiping everything and restoring it to it's new state, then you use the recovery disks. There are other things on them too.

I plan on keeping my recovery disks around for a total disaster, but for real recovery purposes, I'll use the new Complete PC Backup and Restore feature in Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... ackup.mspx

For me, a quick restore to a recent working point is very important. YMMV.

creed_mty wrote:Note from Moderator: Snipped overly long, nested quote.

That's not true, you can have have two DVDs for it, which is what I have, but you'r right you do need two discs.
I believe the first once restores the actual restore program and the second one is used to restore the rest. In theory I think if all that is happened is your mbr got corrupted, while the partition is intact all you need is a first disc. I'm not sure tho.

Very interesting and useful thread on recovery disks.

I have a T60 coming next week. If I make one set of recovery disks on CD, can I copy the CDs to make an extra set?

Thanks,
Leo

creed_mty wrote:
Disk 1 MUST BE CD then, the 2nd Disk can be DVD!!! if you don't do it that way you will not be able to recover from a serious problem or literaly won't work at all!!

Why is that? If that is a problem, shouldn't Lenovo ensure only the CD-R media can be used for the first disk?

(I've already done the back up with 2 DVDs..........)