[ltp] Product recovery disc for T43

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:07:44 -0400


Jason Brooks wrote:
> Your best bet is to get a retail win7 disk. For XP you could use a
> dell recovery disk from pacificgeek.com but you need to know which
> service pack your coa sticker key is tied to. ( My T30 was a sp1 key)
> This is why your best bet is win7

A couple of friends have already offered the OEM version of XP.  I do 
not wish to spend any money on Windows as I rarely use it and only need 
it to download ebooks from the library.  If I were to buy anything, I 
could buy the recovery discs from Lenovo for $45.

tnx jk