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    Accidentally Toss All Software

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by weserve, Sep 23, 2007.

  1. weserve

    weserve Newbie

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    My brother put my laptop box in the trash which had my MS Office, XP, Drivers software and Thinkpad manuals in it. (Laptop is 2 months old) I did already register MS Office, etc and all is working fine. Any advise as to getting new copies of the software that came with my laptop, or am I just out of luck. I doubt Lenovo would be too sympathetic. Should I make a master backup of my system? I usually only backup word and excel files, they are what I really can live without. Most everything else I need is online. Thanks, Tim
     
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  2. odin243

    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    You can certainly make an image of your current drive onto an external one, that would provide you with a backup of all that software. I would also recommend retrieving the CD/Activation keys and such of the software you've already installed, and writing that information down.
     
    odin243, Sep 23, 2007
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    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    Lenovo should be kind enough to send a new recovery CD (which contains Windows). Copy down the product key for everything else and download their trial software. Serials are usually stored somewhere in the registry
     
    hehe299792458, Sep 23, 2007
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    Thanks for advice.
     
    weserve, Sep 24, 2007
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