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I received my T60 laptop with WinXp, before doing anything I fortmatted the hard drive and installed Vista Ultimate. Now I know that XP is still in the recovery partition and if chose to recover my laptop using that partition XP will be installed.
Is there a way to modify the recovery partition to have Vista as the OS to be recovered instead of XP (Deleting XP entirely form the partition)?

You may be able to use the rescue and recovery diskette, but in this case I don't think it will work but it is worth a try I guess. The R&R diskette will rewrite the MBR so you may not be able to boot into VIsta though.

Click on HD CLONE below it has links to the IBM site and instructions on usage

The answer is "No!"

The original question here conveys a misunderstanding of what the R&R partition is. The recovery partition contains the operating system files of the OS that SHIPPED with the machine....not some magic thing that "recovers" any operating system installed on the drive.

So, if your machine shipped with XP the R&R partition contains XP files and can be copied to CDs or DVDs using the utiltity for doing so that is under the ThinkVantage program group.

If your machine shipped with Vista then the R&R partition contains the Vista files.

There is no way to make XP files into Vista files. If there were, Microsoft would be out of business. (grin)

I hope this helps....if any questions, write to me. Good Luck.

something that may or may not work.

If you have the recovery software installed in vista, perhaps you can do a full system backup. You can even save this backup to your hdd, and if/when you need to recover your hard drive, tell it to use the backup.

Ive done this on XP and I like it much better because this way I can set a nice default xp pro, with all my most commonly installed files, so if my hard drive ever crashes, I can get up and running a base image rather than doing the factory reset and then reinstalling/customizing everything from that point onward.

After re-reading the OP, I agree with wally, I misunderstood and thought you wanted to do a recovery back to XP from the HPA.