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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

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!

What are the part numbers for the discs?