Rescue and recovery after installing a Vista OEM


Welcome to the forum Hyldahl,

A number of things here.

(1) the origin of this device came pre-loaded with XP.  This means that XP was also the operating system that has been loaded on the original partition. With these Thinkpads, customers have the ability to create their own set of Community designs. You would normally follow this path:

Start-> programs-> ThinkVantage-> create recovery media

Information on the creation of the RFI on this link:

http://www-307.IBM.com/PC/support/site.WSS/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-68317

You already have a set of your own community designs XP before installing Vista?

(2) If you have installed the Vista RCDs and not create your RCD XP first, the XP recovery partition will be replaced by the Vista recovery partition.

My guess is that you do not create your own community designs yet. If this is the case, you will need to get a copy of the original records for XP. You can try to contact your support local tech to get a copy of the DDR in XP.

(3) in order to restore the windows to original factory State, you start by starting the machine and pressing the F11 key (or just boot from the original R & R cd). See the following link for the step by step guide to use Rescue and Recovery to recover Windows:

http://www-307.IBM.com/PC/support/site.WSS/document.do?sitestyle=Lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70803

I hope this covers everything to help you get started. Let me know if you need additional assistance.

See you soon,.

Mark

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