T400 and recovery discs

When my sister purchased her Thinkpad T400 it was preloaded with Windows Vista with the option to upgrade to Windows 7 when it was released. At that time she didn't feel it worthy to pay for shipping to obtain Windows 7 so she had someone from IT install Windows 7 Ultimate. From the looks of it compared to my recent Thinkpad there is no longer any of the tools from IBM on hers, which raises a few questions...

When one upgrades from Vista to Win7, does the recovery partition also reflect this or would initiating the recovery partition restore the system back to Vista?

Is there any way to have to restore to Win7?

Is there an easy way to install back all the IBM stuff once the machine is converted to Win7? (i.e. get ThinkVantage Tools and it'll install everything else or does that only update what's already on the system)

Is it possible to have IBM send just a Windows 7 upgrade key instead of discs?

 

If it works it would restore back to Vista.

You'd need the Win 7 recovery discs to do this.

Install system update and let it do its thing.

Doubt it.

 

Zaz where is your R60? did you sold it?

 

An opportunity presented itself and I took it. It all happened rather quickly. My R60 was a great notebook, but after having used my X200 for the past few months, I came to realize the R60 is just too big, even only to use around the house. Sure I'll miss the extra resolution, but you can't have it all I guess. My own personal usage dictates that I can only use one notebook at a time and I don't like to take more than I need.

Back on topic.

 

system update = Lenovo Support & downloads - ThinkVantage System Update 4.0 ??

 

That'd be the one.

 

Thanks for the verification!