Recovery disk - CD or DVD for the first disk

Just ordered the X220. Since machine does not come with recovery disks, searching here for how to make the recovery disks.

Some says the first is CD, some says DVD, I guess both works, but just have to make sure (since some also says there is only one shot, true ?)

 

I have/had both a T420 and now a X220 notebook. On the T420 I used three DVD's without issue to burn the recovery disk. The X220 I used one CD and two DVD's

Another member also used 3 DVD's by-passing the CD disk. Hope this confused you a bit more

 

depends on what you use, the lenovo recovery software uses a cd first I believe. you can t ry some other imaging software thoug

 

On my T61 I did CD first. The directions on my W520 said CD or DVD, so I went with all DVDs. Used them without a problem immediately to set up my SSD.

Perry

 

The first disk is the boot disk: it does not contain any OS image information, and is thus quite small and fits comfortably on a CD. There's nothing barring you from using a DVD if you really want to, though.

The second and third disks contain the OS image: there's a lot of data, so both the disks will be nearly full, and must be DVDs.

So, in short, CD + 2 DVDs or 3 DVDs would work.

 

It doesn't hurt anything to use all DVDs. That's what I did and it worked just fine. You wont have any problems.

 

Hmm, mine was 4 discs. First was Boot CD, then 3 DVD's (I think the last might've been small enough to be a CD).

 

I'm getting my W520 on monday!! Can't wait!!!
What are the procedures, for creating recovery disks?
Do I need to do anything special on the first boot?

 

first boot setsup Win 7 preferences and than you use it.

There are good directions on how to create Recovery Disks.

Perry

 

I used all DVDs for my T410s, but as MidnightSun said the first disk is small and could fit on a CD.

I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Canada there is no point in using a CD instead of a DVD since CDs are more expensive.

 

Damn thing failed at the 4th DVD. Is there any way I can just recreate the 4th?

 

Try it again. Happened to me with the T420 model and I had to do it three times before it took.

 

tried doing this for the x220...wow, many many fails
the recovery discs, who uses them anyway.

 

W520 used 4 DVDs ... 1 boot, 3 data. I use boot to startup then proceed to recover with intel 310 in the drive. It fails saying 'Windows cannot verify the digital signature ...'. So I figure use F8 on reboot and turn off signature enforcement. Still no go, it says recovery finished but boot from SSD says windows is corrupt. Anyone seen this before?

 

Call support and see if they will send you the recovery disk at no charge.

 

I used a 16gb SDHC card to get the factory image restored to x-25m, the system seems fine.

Anybody knows if I can burn the image from the usb card to other media like dvd or hard drive?