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    So the standard drive in T400's...

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by MaX PL, Oct 4, 2008.

  1. MaX PL

    MaX PL Notebook Deity

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    cant burn dvds, correct?

    i'm trying to burn these recovery dvds and i cant do it. my four year old laptop has a burner and my parents eight year old desktop has one. burners should be standard in any drive these days...
     
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    While I agree...but it is a method to cut costs down. Personally I don't use the burner too much in my laptop because I have one on my desktop. Looks like you might need to use CD-R's to make your recovery media =/
     
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    unless you have an external DVD burner. That is why I did not order my T500 with the DVD burner.. besides 70 bucks is over priced for a DVD burn, it's 20 for desktop!
     
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    yeh ive decided that i'm gonna buy one at bestbuy and then return it.

    it costs 50 bucks to get the dvds from lenovo which is a scam, and plus i just went out and bought dvd-r's last night not realizing i dont have a burner.

    so another question is, i can burn the discs onto either a dvd+ or - correct, and the drive should read either? if so, i plan on returning the dvd-r's since i have a ton of dvd+r's.
     
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    My T61 neither had a standard DVD writer, so I simply bought (well I already had) an easy adapter to connect an IDE drive (internal desktop DVDR drive) to USB. That way I easily burned the 2 DVD recovery media along with a single CD-R to start the recovery process. I did not test them though, I'm not interesting in using Vista right away.
     
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