Rescue and Recovery upgrade to Vista

[sliverstorm]

Hello, I was just wondering if there is a way to get a set of Vista
R&R disks. I've talked to Lenovo and they won't send any. The
internet doesn't have any (for vista- there is a XP one, but no vista)

I have installed vista a few times off regular install media, I've got
2 licenses for it. I just really like how slick the XP preinstall is- the
comparatively brief time it takes to repair (takes half a day to get
running from vista SP0 install disk), the preinstalled drivers and apps
etc, etc etc.

Are there torrents, or people who might be willing to send me images?
or anything of that nature? I would of course change the key to my
own licence
I'd love to stick w/ XP, but the tablet input feels so superior in vista
and I can get an extra hour of battery life If I could just install
vista's tablet input panel in XP and add a driver for the Intel Turbo
memory, I think I'd be happy w/ XP...

p.s. I have a x61t if you haven't guessed. Also, mods, if you feel this thread is out of line or goes against any of the rules on this site feel free to remove it

[hellosailor]

If you purchased a machine with Vista pre-installed, the Lenovo people ARE authorized to sell you those dsics. They charge about $45 and will only sell them in specific conditions like "I reformatted my hard drive, how do I reinstall Vista? What do you mean, I was supposed to make discs?"

They are not allowed to simply sell you the OS any other way under any other circumstances, except with the purchase of a new computer.

Which leaves you the internet, and taking your chances with who and what you find. Any internet sales of the discs would be illegal to start with, the OEM software just isn't licensed for sale that way.

[frshakl]

I was trying to find out how to restore from a Microsoft Complete backup. I found a site which had a recdisk.exe from Vista sp1 beta which would create a recovery disk. After following his instructions and creating a disk, I discovered the Anytime Update disk would do the same. From the disk you can do a clean install or reload a complete backup. The disk is not just for upgrading Vista.

Fred