Problems with the Visa Business for Vista Ultimate 64-bit upgrade

I have been a loyal customer of ThinkPad T for 10 years. I just got my new T500. In my efforts to save money and wanting to be the best that I bought a 2089-2KU with 2 GIG RAM, Vista Business and a core 9400 processor duo, and then I started immediately at this level to 4 GIG of RAM and Vista Ultimate 64 bit. This has not been fun and my upgrade does not work as I had hoped for. Miss me a lot of drivers after downloading everything on the sites of Lenovo, Microsoft and Intel.

Is there anyone in the community who can give me some constructive advice outside of spending $500 at a sum of $1,000 on a support, or telling me to clear the machine and buy a new one set up correctly by Lenovo in the factory?

The easy way to upgrade is to use the Vista Business 64 recovery disks. Like you bought Vista Business 32 Microsoft license is also valid for Vista Business 64. Unfortunately Lenovo support don't honor the Microsoft licensing system and refuse to embark a recovery disc Vista 64 for you if your system came with Vista 32.

But if you google on thinkpad recovery disks, you'll find U.S. resellers of spare parts online who are willing to sell you the Vista Business 64 recovery discs you need.

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