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    Using Lenovo XP Recovery Disk to downgrade

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mygiantcircle, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. mygiantcircle

    mygiantcircle Newbie

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    Hi:

    Hope you can help me with this:

    1) I just got my t400 with Vista preinstalled
    2) I do not have time to install XP from scratch, but I do have Lenovo's XP recovery disk
    3) when I run the XP recovery disks, it worked fine, but it blew away all partitions and now I only have drive C:

    So, without running out and by a copy of Partition Magic, any way I can configure the HDD so that when it recover it will only do so without blowing out my partitions?

    I figured the answer is no, but I want to see if anyone has any tricks...

    thanks!

    dewey
     
    mygiantcircle, Jan 12, 2009
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    ZaZ, Jan 12, 2009
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