Unable to load Vista from factory recovery disks?

X200, X201, X220 (including equivalent tablet models) and X300, X301 series specific matters only.
Post Reply
Message
Author
xwray
Posts: 16
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:48 pm
Location: Deer Park, TX

Unable to load Vista from factory recovery disks?

#1 Post by xwray » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:49 pm

I have an X200 running XP. The X200 was delivered with XP installed and Vista recovery disks. I wanted to see how Vista performed so I decided to load the Vista from the factory recovery disks. There are 3 disks...Disk1 Start Recovery Disk, Disk2 OS System Recovery Disk, and DIisk3 Applications and Drivers Recovery Disk. I have an external Lenovo DVD drive and the BIOS is set to boot from this first.



I placed Disk 1 into the drive and rebooted. The system loaded and the Rescue and Recovery program came up, did it's thing, and asked for Disk 1 to be inseryed. Well, Disk 1 was already inserted but I ejected and re-inserted it - it said this was not the correct disk. So, I figured Disk 2 might be "disk 1" in this context but it didn't like that one either coughing up the same incorrect disk message. So, only disk 3 is left so I tried that too, same results.



OK, what am I doing wrong or might Lenovo have include incorrect disks.



Any help is much appreciated.



thanks
<Smith&Wesson...the original point and click interface>

Marin85
Senior ThinkPadder
Senior ThinkPadder
Posts: 2975
Joined: Sat May 12, 2007 10:54 am
Location: Munich, Germany

Re: Unable to load Vista from factory recovery disks?

#2 Post by Marin85 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:57 pm

I think there is a problem with the recovery disks. I too have used such as well and everything worked flawlessly. You may request another set at no costs for you if your machine is still covered under warranty, you will have to explain to them your situation. The recovery process is pretty automagic, so there isn´t really much that can be done to solve this kind of problem. I only hope it´s not some more general design problem of the recovery disk...

BTW, nice signature! :D
IBM Lenovo Z61p | 15.4'' WUXGA | Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 2x 2.16GHz | 4 GB Kingston HyperX | Hitachi 7K500 500 GB + WD 1TB (USB) | ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 | ThinkPad Atheros a/b/g | Analog Devices AD1981HD | Win 7 x86 + ArchLinux 2009.08 x64 (number crunching)

man_unit
Posts: 14
Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:51 pm
Location: Austin, Texas

Re: Unable to load Vista from factory recovery disks?

#3 Post by man_unit » Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:36 am

What are the part numbers for the discs?
X200T Core2Duo SL9400(1.86GHz, 6MB L2, 1066MHz)
32bit Vista Bus.
12.1" WideView MultiTouch
3 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM
160GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
Integrated Bluetooth PAN
Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN)
Integrated AT&T Mobile Broadband (3G)
7448-CTO

Post Reply
  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Return to “ThinkPad X200/201/220 and X300/301 Series”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 9 guests