Recovery CD's: Only one shot to make them!

[JHaislet]

I've got a gripe!

I got my T43 yesterday and proceeded to make my recovery CD set. However, a writing error on the first CD (defective CD) ruined the entire set. When I tried to burn the CD's again with a different brand of CD's, it said I'm limited to ONE freaking set, and it wouldn't burn them again

I used the clean install XP guide to do a clean install and reclaimed the recovery partition, and everything is working fine. I just really wanted a set of recovery disc's in case I need to return it to IBM or sell the machine. I guess I'll be calling IBM for the discs as their self-destruct method of making them yourself SUCKS.

[carbon_unit]

I believe that if you use the recovery partition to restore XP you can burn a set of recovery cd's again. Might want to verify that.

[JHaislet]

I didn't even think of that! Oh well, the recovery partition is long gone now! I'll be calling IBM next week and see what they say.

[bapatterson]

Hmmm. On my T42p, the recovery disk makes verified the burn to the CD before it deleted the ability to make another set. I had a burn issue as well, but when it failed the verification process, it let me burn another set.