Clean Windows 7 install for T400

[JordanN]

Just picked up a new T400 with Windows 7 32 bit Pro. It shipped with demos of Office 2007, Windows Live, Norton, and a bunch of other stuff I don't want installed. On all the other computers that had XP, but not separate media I could do the following:

A. Copy the I386 folder to a CD and use it for an install and copy the SWTools folder to a DVD and manually install the desired apps.

B. Monkey with the recovery partition to alter the recovery batch file to skip the junk I don't want.

On this unit I can copy the SWTools folder easy enough, but I can't see how to get a Windows 7 install disk off the unit to use method A nor can I see a way to do method B.

[visionviper]

I take it you don't have any recovery discs...?

[JordanN]

I do have recovery disks, but they are only the ones you need to make for yourself. They are 2 disks:

1. The DVD label is RCD_AppCD0 -> 7 GB
2. A CD with no CD label -> 225 MB

The first DVD just has a couple of subfolders. One is Recovery with just recovery.ini in it. The second is FactoryRecovery with a bunch of 500 MB files cdrivebackupxx.swm, sdrivebackup.wim, and a couple of INI files. The only ini that looks like it can do anything is recovery.ini which looks like below. To me it looks like it installs the whole image at once and not like previous thinkpads that would install windows, then bang through all the apps and additional utilities after the first boot.

Recovery.ini
[partition1]
size=1199
type=07
label=SYSTEM_DRV
volume=S
active=1
recfromsp=0
imagename=Sdrivebackup.wim
install=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup.wim 1 S:\
installsplit=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup.swm 1 S:\ /ref Q:\factoryrecovery\Sdrivebackup*.swm
[partition2]
size=
type=07
label=Windows7_OS
volume=C
active=0
recfromsp=0
imagename=Cdrivebackup.wim
install=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup.wim 1 C:\
installsplit=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup.swm 1 C:\ /ref Q:\factoryrecovery\Cdrivebackup*.swm
[partition3]
size=9999
type=07
label=Lenovo_Recovery
volume=Q
active=0
recfromsp=0
imagename=Qdrivebackup.wim
install=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Qdrivebackup.wim 1 Q:\
installsplit=iuimagex.exe /apply /verify Q:\factoryrecovery\Qdrivebackup.swm 1 Q:\ /ref Q:\factoryrecovery\Qdrivebackup*.swm