Rescue and Recovery 4, Vista? Help please.

[Bobdare]

I've asked a lot of questions lately, please excuse me. I'm very confused! I backed up my pc using lenovo's rescue and recovery 4 via thinkvantage. Upon start up I can access rescue and recovery as I used to with XP. I have a choice to recover from my last backup and another option of recovering factory settings. Would this recover it (as claimed) to the day it left the factory? XP that is. Or would it recover it as Vista which I installed later on. On device manager I can still view the hidden 5gb that has XP's recovery. How do I get rid of that all together? I can't expand from device manager, any other option?

[arni]

If you choose factory install r&r will boot your pc back to r&r version 3 and do a complete wipe of your hdd and install xp from the factory image.

You will be left with a xp system just like you received your laptop.