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Hi,

I have a Thinkpad W500 with windows XP preinstalled. I created the recovery disks from Thinkvantage. I am not sure whether this recovery will work if something terribly happened to the XP files as the recover disk was created from Thinkvantage as adviced in the manual.
As such I would like to create 'XP-recovery' CDs. Can someone tell how to create XP recovery CDs?

Thanks in advance.
Fernando

What makes you think they'll fail?

FredGarvin wrote:What makes you think they'll fail?

One of my friend has T61p and all of sudden, while working at home, he got a keyboard error, continuously beeping. After spending day or two to resurrect the laptop (removing the key board and using a USB-keyboard) he found that the some drivers and XP OS system had damaged/corrupted files. Needed to re-install XP and fortunately he had XP-recovery disks. Laptop is back now. During his search he found many people had said this is a common problem and need to re-install XP OS.

So I guess it is important to keep XP-recovery disks. If anyone does know how to create XP-recover disks please let me know.

Thanks,
Fernando

Two options :
a) burn your own copy of the factory pre-load. It's usually called Create Recovery Media under the ThinkVantage group.
b) Phone Lenovo and order a copy of the CD set . This will likely be chargeable.

ok.
Thanks.