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    New Lenovo Y550 4186 with no CDs

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Captain Soban, Jan 29, 2010.

  1. Captain Soban

    Captain Soban Newbie

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    Hi everyone,

    I just bought a new Lenovo Y550 4186 from tigerdirect thru amazon.

    It arrived just fine and running properly.

    I just have one question though, does it really come without CDs?
    I'm used to buying laptops and getting them with OEM CDs and a Windows 7 CD too. I'm hoping to reformat the HD and reinstall Windows 7 on a single partion and use another for Ubuntu.

    Also, it's really bothering me that there are no CDs because I feel much safer in knowing that if something trashes my OS I'll be able to reformat the HD have a fresh Windows installation.

    Thanks in advance for the insightfull replies
     
    Captain Soban, Jan 29, 2010
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    Captain Soban Newbie

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    any help anyone?
     
    Captain Soban, Jan 30, 2010
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    xaueious Notebook Enthusiast

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    You are supposed to burn them yourself.
     
    xaueious, Jan 30, 2010
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    bugyao Notebook Enthusiast

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    Software and Recovery Media
    ThinkPads do not come with Recovery Media. They must burned from your ThinkPad, which we would highly recommend you do shortly after receiving your machine. Put the recovery discs in a safe place too. The recovery discs are not a Windows disc, but will restore your machine to its factory state. All the software for your machine, which would include the drivers and applications installed on your ThinkPad, are located in the SWTools folder on C:\ drive. We would recommend promptly making a backup of this as well. If for some reason you didn't make the recovery discs or a copy of the SWTools folder like we told you, you can go to the ThinkPad Driver Matrix to download all the apps/drivers for your ThinkPad.
     
    bugyao, Jan 30, 2010
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  5. lead_org

    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    Ideapad is not thinkpad, they use one key recovery partition on the hdd, but i don't think you can burn the recovery disks like you can with Thinkpads.
     
    lead_org, Jan 30, 2010
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  6. Captain Soban

    Captain Soban Newbie

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    Thanks for the replies. Ok so I was told that I can download and burn Windows 7. Also IdeaPads really don't come with any CD.
    I haven't actually found a download for Windows 7 premium. So does anyone know if we can really download Windows 7 premium.
    I still have my reservartions on reformating and repartioning the HD. Tips anyone?
     
    Captain Soban, Feb 4, 2010
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    pdhaudio83 Newbie

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    You have a recovery partition. And have fun trying to repartition stuff, the HIDDEN partition is a ()%@*#%(@ to get rid of.

    I wonder if Windows has a recovery disc for download? (they had this for Vista IIRC)
     
    pdhaudio83, Feb 4, 2010
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