Recovery CDs

[oaaltone]

For those of us who own Vista-upgrade-eligible ThinkPads, can we order Vista recovery CDs with the entire factory image on them instead of doing an XP->Vista upgrade? I'd rather the ThinkPad have the factory installed drivers and utilities.

[margolin]

This page seems to sugesst that we can order a Vista recovery DVD. Presumably you have to prove to them that you own Vista.

It would be really nice if there were a way to update the recovery partition to Vista. Otherwise, if you wanted to do a clean install, you'd have to load XP from the recovery partition, delete various components that will not work in Vista and then install Vista from DVD.

[johnp126]

i read that you can install vista over xp but still do a clean install, the only problem is that you have to have a build of xp first. when u do the upgrade it asks if you want to delete and install clean os.. thats what is going around in postings etc..

[twilleyj]

I just installed Vista (takes 15 minutes), installed the Lenovo Recovery software, and choose Create new DVD.

It's better than paying $ and waiting for it to be shipped!

John

[senbros]

i read this on this forum and called lenovo support australia..they cnt send you vista preinstalled recovery dvd, as winxp was shipped originally.

thx

[kf_man]

I just installed Vista (takes 15 minutes), installed the Lenovo Recovery software, and choose Create new DVD.

It's better than paying $ and waiting for it to be shipped!

John

Was your install and upgrade or a clean install? Did you originally have the recovery partition before you performed the upgrade and did it get modified during the install? Was the CD you used from Lenovo/ModusLink or another source?