HELP: recovery of T61

Dear ALL,
I bought my T61 with vista last month, but destroied my recovery backup accidently last week (it doesn't work when I press ThinkVantage button). So would it be possible for me to get recovery CDs from Lenovo or any individual? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Really hope to be able to get a clean & stable system as what it was!
Cheers,
Joe
Message Edited by zyliu on 04-26-2008 03:01 PM

Hi, just to ask, do you mean the Recovery CD pack that you receive at purchase? If so, you'll have to contact the Lenovo support service.
However, if you meant the Rescue & Recovery backups & accessing Rescue & Recovery, then I believe you can try pressing the F10/F12 key and see if you can access the Rescue & Recovery program at boot up. Otherwise try creating a Rescue & Recovery media through "Create Rescue media", if you have one (Should be available if you have the latest version of Rescue & Recovery), so you can run the program without having to press the ThinkVantage button.
Clarify my answers if I'm wrong. Hope it helps.

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