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
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any help anyone?
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You are supposed to burn them yourself.
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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. -
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.
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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? -
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)
New Lenovo Y550 4186 with no CDs
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Captain Soban, Jan 29, 2010.