[ltp] Re: Recovery experience

[Daniel Pittman]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> Vincent Touquet wrote:
> 
>> By the way, does IBM provide an XP OEM cd if you want to reinstall XP
>> in a different partition or is that what the recovery cds are for ?
>>
>>I just got my shiny new Thinkpad and I am looking for a cd, but I
>>cannot find one :) I do think that I will want to reinstall XP sooner
>>or later.
>
> I've heard that in the US you can get IBM to post you the recovery CDs
> for free. When I tried the same deal with IBM in Australia (where I
> bought my T40) they wanted $AU82 to send the CDs out. No idea about
> Europe.

Obviously, millage varies with the person you talk to - I got my
recovery CD set from IBM Australia for free. :)

         Daniel

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