product recovery cds from IBM

[thinky]

I have a question, if I want product recovery discs does IBM/Lenovo ship them (stamped media, CD or DVD ) to me or my only option is to burn the cds from the recovery partition on unreliable media ?
thanks
thinky

[GomJabbar]

You have 3 options.

1. Buy the recovery CD's from IBM/Lenovo for about $45-$50 US.
2. Burn the CD's yourself on unreliable media.
3. Burn the CD's yourself on reliable media. Link: CD Media guide 1 Link: CD Media guide 2

[GomJabbar]

I see someone switched the locks.

BTW, I don't lock or unlock anyone. It was one of the moderators. They do it on all cross-posted threads they find. It's a policy of this forum.

[JaneL]

I see someone switched the locks. :o

I did that because this was the thread with the answers.

Incidentally, I'm on a dog-slow dial-up line these days because my cable is out from all the ice storm problems. Not a happy camper. Best if everyone just reads the posting guidelines and abides by them (and the unwritten no-pictures-without-a-warning rule), if you catch my drift... ;-)

[smugiri]

dial up ?

dial up? whats that? was that where we used to have a tin can at one end and a tin can at the other and a long string in between ?

cable definitely has me spoiled: i would go mad if i lost my high speed connection ....

[davidspalding]

OT: Funny, but how old tech kind of catchs up with us. I have tried connecting to Earthlink to use my whoppin' 20 hours a month , using my Nokia via Bluetooth. Golly hot dang, Andy, it works! What's funnier: I just got Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 (yes, I'm jazzed and boasting), and Amazon used a copy of Symantec ProComm 4.8 (hehe, I remember shareware ProComm Plus, though I preferred Qmodem; I know people who lived and died by Crosstalk). I think they used it as dunnage for my box. But they list it at $139 on their site. Fancy dunnage.

Just occurred to me that it might be handy for faxing and dialing via my BT phone modem. Don't jest guys, when RR/TWC/Comcast/Bubba's DSL Dudes goes out, that little cell phone of yours can be handy-dandy.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum thread.