Lenovo Recovery Disk

Greetings I just requested Lenovo Recovery Disk for T61 which is being sent to me as when I tried to make my own they failed. I have two questions about them.

1) Can the recovery disk themselves be used more then once? or is there a limit?

2) Has any of you used the recovery disk to upgrade to a new harddrive and been succesful? ie swap out the old HD and put in the new HD and then just put in the recovery disk to get everything looking as if it just came from the factory?

Any input on this matter would be greatly appreciate. Thank you for your time! have a wonderful evening.

 

1. No limit. You should be able to install, erase, install as many times as you want.

2. You should have no problem replacing the hard disk and installing with the recovery disks.

Did you have to pay for your Recovery Disks? I'm thinking of calling Lenovo and requesting a set for mine. Did you have to mention which recovery OS your laptop came with or do they already have that on their system?

 

Thanks for the clarification. I got to disk for free..the CS guy said I was covered as I'm under warranty. I didn't have to mention which OS as when I called he asked for my thinkpad model # and serial #...afterwards he ask why I needed recovery disk...checked to see if their in stock...and gave me a case # so I could check the status of the cd shipment. It was a good experience dealing with support...feel free to share your experience..hopefully it'll be a good one...I have heard some ppl had to pay for the CDs which is a bummer.

 

I got mine for free too. And the most interesting, I got them overnight!
I called CS around afternoon, and told them that I can't boot up my system and I need recovery cds, they said no problem, and next morning I got my cds and all that was free.

 

You can use the recovery disks as often as you like, you can only burn them once -- that's the limit. When you fire up R&R, it will have a button to burn recovery media. However, once you've done it successfully once, it will not allow it to be done again. Unfortunate, as I burned CDs instead of DVDs and was unable to reburn. I had thought the first disk had to be a CD and I could make the rest DVDs but no such luck.

 

can you give me the number you used to call CS? I just called and they told me I'd need to purchase discs, even though I'm under warranty.

 

I'm gonna try this.....thx for the info

 

if i have recovery cds/dvds can i delete hidden partition?

thank you in advance

 

I called 1-800-426-7378...it was around 12:30 EST...did you get a msg prompt that you were being transfered to Atlanta? if so then I assume you dialed the same number