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    Recover Deleted Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by timbo4656, Oct 8, 2008.

  1. timbo4656

    timbo4656 Notebook Enthusiast

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    When i first got my R61 with vista i decided to do a clean install of XP. At the same time I deleted the recovery partition as I never thought of switching back to vista. Well now I am as im getting tired of XP, but obviously I deleted the partition so nothing comes up when I try to recover using the blue button.

    I tried to do so by clicking on "create recovery media", it said it extracted but since i dont have CD-r's i cannot complete it to see if it actually works. If it extracted, does that mean I still have the partition/ recovery media still intact?

    Alos, I tried calling lenovo about getting recovery cd's but they said it would cost $45 since I deleted the partition.
     
    timbo4656, Oct 8, 2008
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    timbo4656 Notebook Enthusiast

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    never mind. called a bunch of times and finally got the cds for free.

    Please delete thread.
     
    timbo4656, Oct 8, 2008
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    Ralf Hutter Notebook Enthusiast

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    So what exactly did you have to do/say to get them to finally send them to you?
     
    Ralf Hutter, Oct 10, 2008
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