Lenovo OEM/Recovery Vista DVD Clean-Up?

Hi,

I've read both Playmaker and stallen's guide, I've also read orev's guide in the HP section. In orev's guide, there are instructions for cleaning up the Dell OEM discs, I was wondering if anyone knows the procedures to cleanup the Lenovo OEM discs?

In orev's guide, for Dell OEM discs, he mentioned about in the "sources" folder, there is a folder called "$oem$" and a file called "pid.txt", but I did not find these on the Lenovo DVD.

I just bought a Lenovo notebook and it comes with Vista Home Premium. In the package, there is a "Lenovo Product Recovery DVD" (Windows Vista 32BIT Home Premium). I know the source files are all in there, but I want to clean it up and make a clean Vista DVD out of this before I perform a clean install.

By the way, there are also a separate Lenovo drivers disc and a Lenovo software disc, altogether 3 discs in the package. Since the there are a separate drivers and software discs, maybe the "Lenovo Product Recovery DVD" is already clean?

Thanks.

 

All the software for your machine is located in the SWTools folder on the C:\ drive. This would include all the applications and driver installed on your machine. Just burn off a copy of that and you'll have your apps/drivers discs.

It is my understanding the newest versions of Rescue and Recovery allow you to do a a custom re-install, putting on only the things you want. You are then able to burn a new set of recovery discs which will only include your custom install and not the factory install.

 

Thanks for the info, ZaZ.

Instead of creating a new Rescue and Recovery disc from the already installed Vista, there is no way to just pull the clean source files from the OEM DVD that came with the notebook? From my understanding, for Dell you only have to delete the folder called "$oem$" and a file called "pid.txt" on the OEM disc, but I cannot find either in the Lenovo DVD. I'd prefer to use the OEM source files on the OEM DVD to create a clean Vista disc.

 

I am not aware of how Lenovo structures their recovery discs. It worked with Dell because they took a Vista disc and customized it for the install. Lenovo may have done that, or they may have made a recovery image, or use some type of proprietary software to do the recovery. Really, there are so many different ways they could do it, it would be hard to write a guide or make instructions on how to do it.

Before messing around with the recovery discs, I would check out the download thread so you can start with a clean slate.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=240320

 

No worry, I can imagine it's probably not easy to figure out different OEM discs. I just thought maybe someone here has done it with their Lenovo disc.

Thanks for the link, I read that thread before, but for the last few days, the download links didn't work for some reason. But now it's working again.

Thanks again.