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    Lenovo T500, installing windows 7/vista

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Chango99, Jun 21, 2009.

  1. Chango99

    Chango99 Derp

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    Quick couple of questions:

    1) Does Lenovo ship discs along with a purchased laptop? Discs for installing windows vista and the needed drivers for the Lenovo, like the switchable graphics driver?

    2) Does the switchable graphics driver work for windows 7? Does everything else pre-installed with the lenovo work?
     
    Chango99, Jun 21, 2009
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  2. hax0rJimDuggan

    hax0rJimDuggan Notebook Deity

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    1.) They don't ship, but you can create your own via their software when it arrives. You'll need some DVD's to burn.

    2.) No driver for it yet. However, you can switch graphics via the bios. Lenovo does have some beta drivers for Win 7 which work just fine.
     
    hax0rJimDuggan, Jun 21, 2009
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  3. Th1nkpad

    Th1nkpad Notebook Consultant

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    You can burn your own recovery disks. It's 1 CD and 2 DVDs, took me about 40 minutes to do it. Really easy. I wiped my installation afterward and put Windows 7 on my machine. With the beta drivers it runs great!
     
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  4. johnnyftw

    johnnyftw Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'd back up all drivers thats preloaded on your computer , get yourself a copy of your licensed version of windows, and then do a clean install.
     
    johnnyftw, Jun 22, 2009
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