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    Recovery disks, is it normal this quantity?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by zeusmd, Nov 29, 2008.

  1. zeusmd

    zeusmd Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yesterday, I proceeded to creating the recovery CDs with the recovery tool, and CD after CD, he requested a total of 13 CDs!!! Is it normal?

    I don't have on my T400 a DVD burner, so I burned CDs instead.

    I'd like to mention, that I made the recovery disks after a period of 2 weeks, after setting up my whole working environment on the laptop.
     
    zeusmd, Nov 29, 2008
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    copy the whole OS, plus all the progs onto 700mb CDs... what do you expect?

    13 x 700mb = 9100mb = ~9Gb = ~2 DVDs

    2 DVDs is normal for recovery storage.

    so all in all, nothing to worry about.
     
    whizzo, Nov 29, 2008
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  3. receph

    receph Notebook Evangelist

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    I've got 9 for the factory install cds

    and if you haven't made yours, I recommend you do so
    it seems, with 13, you've backed up your existing config, with all the sw you installed
     
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