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Hello everyone,
May I replace the old HDD (already formated/partitions and lost everything on it) with new HDD by only using recovery CD to get the system (Vista OS) up and running?
Your answer will be much appreciated.

You should look into something called Acronis true image. I see in the Lenovo forums about people using them all the time with no problems what so ever. An example is someone used it to copy the old drive to a new drive (like your wanting to do) and booted up with no problems. They had everything. The only thing I did see is that you can not put it to a smaller drive (don't see why someone would want to do that anyways)
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