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    Messed up my Thinkpad, thinkvantage button after Vista?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by MYK, Feb 7, 2007.

  1. MYK

    MYK Newbie NBR Reviewer

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    I installed Vista Ultimate Upgrade on my Thinkpad. I got this off a friend of mine from his office. Turned out to have an invalid key! It won't even login, I'm through with it now. I want to go back to XP. I restart, hit thinkvantage and all I can do is go to the bios screen.
    How do I reformat XP from there? Did I lose the thinkvantage button? Do I need a new windows dvd? I don't have any recovery cds :(
     
    MYK, Feb 7, 2007
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    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    Well when you installed Windows Vista you most likely deleted the recovery partition that the thinkvantage button uses. Your best bet is to order yourself a set of recovery DVDs from IBM (Lenovo) and use those.
     
    Airman, Feb 7, 2007
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Or hopefully you burned them off before putting on Vista.
     
    ZaZ, Feb 7, 2007
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    Can't do that, didn't do that either. I'll just buy Vista and fresh install it.
     
    MYK, Feb 7, 2007
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    MYK, Feb 7, 2007
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