The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    T61p shippig with Vista and XP

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by eugenes, Oct 21, 2007.

  1. eugenes

    eugenes Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    201
    Messages:
    405
    Likes Received:
    12
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I just received a T61p with Vista Ultimate installed. Since the notebook was used by a coworker for a day, I decided to restore it to default using the included recovery CDs.

    Upon restore, I discovered I now have XP SP2! Quite a nice surprise, since I originally asked for XP. (not really sure if the original recovery partition had Vista or XP)

    Anyone else seen this happen before?
     
    eugenes, Oct 21, 2007
    #1
  2. sp00n

    sp00n Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    512
    Messages:
    1,684
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Vista Ultimate/Business entitles you to a license of XP Pro as well. I'm pretty certain your recovery partition has Vista Ultimate, as that's what was preinstalled on your laptop.
     
    sp00n, Oct 21, 2007
    #2
  3. eugenes

    eugenes Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    201
    Messages:
    405
    Likes Received:
    12
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Nice to know. Although since I restored the recovery partition from the CDs, I guess there is no easy way to get Vista Ultimate back...if I actually want to do that someday.
     
    eugenes, Oct 21, 2007
    #3
  4. sp00n

    sp00n Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    512
    Messages:
    1,684
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Vista Ultimate should still be in the hidden recovery partition. Just press the blue ThinkVantage button when you boot up the laptop to go into recovery mode.
     
    sp00n, Oct 21, 2007
    #4
  5. eugenes

    eugenes Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    201
    Messages:
    405
    Likes Received:
    12
    Trophy Points:
    31
    The CDs overwrote the recovery partition with an XP version. Guess I should have backed up the OEM licenses.
     
    eugenes, Oct 21, 2007
    #5
  6. sp00n

    sp00n Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    512
    Messages:
    1,684
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I'm sure you can ask Lenovo to send you a set of Vista Recovery Disks.
     
    sp00n, Oct 21, 2007
    #6