[ltp] Recovery experience (was: Re: Captive Linux GPL NTFS Driver)
Tino Keitel
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:45:22 +0100
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 00:23:19 +0100, 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 simply called IBM and complained about a broken recovery procedure
(which was actually broken: the MBR was not rewritten. Seems like all
those recovery-only Windows versions really suck hard) and got all the
CDs for the R40 two days later.
Regards,
Tino