[ltp] Re: Recovery experience

[Philipp Sandhaus]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 02:05:03PM +1100, 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. :)
> 
>          Daniel
> 
I had a phone-call with the IBM-Support in Germany yesterday and ordered 
the recovery CDs for my R40. It was no problem. I told them I had
accidently damaged my PreDesktop-Area while  repartitionong my harddisk.
I got the CDs today for free.

Philipp


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