R61-Vista/XP disks?

My beautiful R61 came with Vista business, but I used the CD to downgrade to Windows XP instead. Now, I changed my mind and want to reinstall Vista on the machine.

But it seems that the boot drive only is the XP - and boot into the rescue & recovery and choosing reinstall only to put XP on the machine. I have somehow changed the images of R & R facility?

And then I somehow get back my Vista?

Thank you

Have you used the Rescue and Recovery utility to make a set of recovery Vista CD before you have installed XP?

If not, then no, you get Vista back short to get a set of recovery Vista CD of Lenovo.

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