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Hello,

I have a X200 with Win7 x32bit preinstalled, and I have just made make factory recovery discs.
The software creates only 2 discs (DVD-R): 1 boot + 1 media

I was wondering if it's normal to have only 2 discs, as I have already made many recovery discs on other systems (T400, T410i, T400s, T510i, T500, etc...); and all of them have minimum 1 boot + 3 media discs.

Does anyone have already made his factory discs on a X200 with Win7 preinstalled that can confirm me how many discs there are ?

Thanks !

Yves from Belgium

3 Discs (1 +2) for me on my X200, however it is Win 7 64-bit. I don't know if that would make a difference of one disc.

@Sandstorm83: Thanks for your reply.
It's strange... I have also received from Cust Service the recovery discs of the Win7 64bit for my X200, and there are also only 2 discs.
And your set includes 3 discs for the same OS...

Strange strange strange...

I guess I will see if it is enough the day I will have to recover from scratch...

Anyone else on this forum who can give us some feedback ????

Hmm... I just created repair and restore discs and it took 4 total dvdr's????

Can someone please explain to me.. are the 1st 3 discs the windows 7 OS? Is it windows 7 OS as it was configured on my machine at the time? Or is it a fresh clean copy of windows? Im getting confused because they constantly use the term "Backup" so sounds like they're referring to backing up and creating a disc with the current configurations.

Im running windows 7 32-bit...

sounds like you ran the windows backup which is not the same thing as creating the recovery discs.

i have x201, win7 64bit and it creates one boot cd (1st disc) and two dvds. not sure if the 32bit recovery set is the same # of discs though.

maxboost wrote:Hmm... I just created repair and restore discs and it took 4 total dvdr's????

Can someone please explain to me.. are the 1st 3 discs the windows 7 OS? Is it windows 7 OS as it was configured on my machine at the time? Or is it a fresh clean copy of windows? Im getting confused because they constantly use the term "Backup" so sounds like they're referring to backing up and creating a disc with the current configurations.

Im running windows 7 32-bit...

filmbuff wrote:sounds like you ran the windows backup which is not the same thing as creating the recovery discs.

i have x201, win7 64bit and it creates one boot cd (1st disc) and two dvds. not sure if the 32bit recovery set is the same # of discs though.

Then how do you create recovery discs? I went into control panel>backup and restore>create image from backup or something like that..

It told me to label the 1st 3 discs dvd's, then it told me to label the 4th and final one recovery.

Im confused. I just wnat a fresh and clean copy of windows.... please help.

under control panel, click on the icon called 'Lenovo Factory Recovery Disks'.

maxboost wrote: Then how do you create recovery discs? I went into control panel>backup and restore>create image from backup or something like that..

It told me to label the 1st 3 discs dvd's, then it told me to label the 4th and final one recovery.

Im confused. I just wnat a fresh and clean copy of windows.... please help.

Ok thanks guys. I was pretty sure I heard somebody say in my previous post that you COULD use Ultimate, maybe it was another forum i was randomly searching on. Nevertheless, I will just stick to PROFESSIONAL 64bit. I have no problems with it.

Unless you guys really encourage me to get Ultimate, i will just use professional. Or maybe i should start off by reading about the advantages of ultimate vs professional first. =p