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    How to get/make XP recovery disks?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by zachtib, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. zachtib

    zachtib Notebook Consultant

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    My brother wants to try Ubuntu on his new R61, which came preloaded with XP. Is there a way to create an XP recovery/installation disk so that we can move XP into a VM under Ubuntu?
     
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  2. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    If you don't have an XP disc, an easy and inexpensive way to obtain one is if you are a student of a university/college, go to your IT department and inquire about a purchase. They are usually very cheap, I bought mine for $10. If you are not a student, you could ask a relative or friend who does go to a school to buy you one, then you can pay them back. Usually, the disc will say Student Media Edition but it's essentially the same as XP Professional.

    If you are unable to obtain an XP disc with the alternative school method, you can try and create your own bootable XP disc by using this link: http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml

    I cannot guarantee that by creating your own bootable XP disc, the installation will work. Although, there have been many successful reports.
     
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  3. zachtib

    zachtib Notebook Consultant

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    what i'm wanting to do, though, is create a recovery disk from his recovery partition, is this possible?
     
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  4. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    You can create recovery discs using the R&R program that came pre-installed. If you don't have that, but you do have the recovery partition still intact, then you can create recovery discs by re-installing R&R.
     
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    arki

    what's the recovery cd options if u installed from a ms oem dvd with no recovery partition
     
    randallrivy11, Apr 8, 2009
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    bm99 Notebook Enthusiast

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    What is the difference from installing using recovery discs made with RnR vs. using a windows XP CD?

    I bought a new HD but don't have a windows CD. Would the recovery discs give me the same result?
     
    bm99, Apr 8, 2009
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  7. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    No they will not. An OEM Windows CD only installs Windows and nothing else while the recovery discs will basically return your ThinkPad to its factory state. This would include all of ThinkVantage software, drivers and apps. In the T61 days Rescue and Recovery was allowing users to do a clean install of the OS. One could choose to install only the apps/drivers they wanted. You could then burn a set of recovery discs to mirror the custom install. Unfortunately Lenovo has chosen to remove this option on newer ThinkPads.
     
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    There should be an option to burn recovery media under ThinkVantage in the Start Menu. I hope you bought a DVD burner (because CDs would take too long).
     
    pacmandelight, Apr 9, 2009
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    options:

    1: crate a installation XP cd from the currently installed XP on your system, so that you can do clean install of XP later.

    2: buy another cheap HDD, replace, and try new OS on the new drive. If things dont look good, change back the old HDD with the good OS and use the new HDD for storage. I'd do it this way.
     
    miro_gt, Apr 9, 2009
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