[ltp] Product recovery disc for T43

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:49:53 -0400


Jochen Schulz wrote:
> James Knott:
>    
>> >
>> >  I recently acquired a ThinkPad T43.  It appears to run openSUSE 11.4
>> >  fairly well, but it didn't come with the original XP Pro recovery
>> >  disc or partition.  It had a corrupted version of Windows 7 on it.
>> >  Is there any recommended places to obtain the recovery disc?
>>      
> I simply contacted Lenovo support (via telephone, IIRC) and received
> recovery discs by mail a few days later.
>    

Was your computer still under warranty at the time.  I did the same with 
my R31 and was told they were free since it was still in warranty.  
Others, who tried after the warranty expired, weren't able to get it for 
free.