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    Recovery Discs & System Restore Questions

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by peanutz, Dec 10, 2009.

  1. peanutz

    peanutz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi there,

    I've just received my new Lenovo X200s. It's been 5 yrs since I last purchased a Thinkpad laptop. I had a look on this forum but still not quite sure I understand what the fuss with creating the system recovery discs. I've never created a system recovery discs with my old Thinkpad R50. When the worst scenario happened, I did press the blue ThinkVantage button on start up of BIOS and do the system restore to factory setting to revert everything back to the same state as when I received my R50 from IBM. This seems to work for me so far. Does it still work the same way with X200s? Do I have to create any backup discs for whatever reason?

    Thanks.
     
    peanutz, Dec 10, 2009
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    If you want a new hard drive might be one instance.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 10, 2009
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    If your hard drive crashes, you also lose your recovery partition. Therefore, I highly suggest that you do burn a set. Besides, there's nothing to lose by doing so, although I do imagine that it is more inconvenient to do so on the optical-drive-less X-series.
     
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  4. smiley_lauf

    smiley_lauf Notebook Consultant

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    I made a blunder with this--only did the recovery disc but not the system restore bit--so I could not recover or reinstall Windows XP (came with it), after I tried upgrading to Windows 7. Make sure you make both the discs and also ensure you have all the drivers also copied.

    Highly recommended.
    S
     
    smiley_lauf, Dec 10, 2009
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  5. peanutz

    peanutz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry I'm a noob... what's the difference between system restore & recovery?
     
    peanutz, Dec 10, 2009
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    None.

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    Renee, Dec 10, 2009
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