[ltp] Re: Recovery experience

[James Knott]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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. :)

I got one from IBM Canada, though I got the impression it's only 
available while your computer is under warranty.