Lenovo recovery disc

Hi i have a Lenovo 3000 n500 and and was supplied with 3 recovery discs ( Vista) i have tried to do a recovery but cannot find the 3rd disc and it wont let me go any further does anyone know of a link where i can download the third disc, Lenova tech help isnt open till Monday.

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    My x200 came with Windows XP Pro x86 loaded and a Windows 7 x86 (32-bit) OS recovery and driver DVD. I want to install a x64 bit Windows 7 on this machine using the same Lenovo provided discs (but do not have them)--does anyone know how to get these discs from Lenovo--I believe it free is one has a 32-bit licence already (like I do from lenovo). 
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    S

    The_Solutor wrote:
    There isn't a recovery disc in the 64 bit flavor for the x100.
    Just use a plain  Win x64 media (don't input the serial during the installation process) , then restore the activation files with ABR (activation backup and recovery), obviously you have to backup them in windows x86, no online activation is needed.
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    he got the x200 laptop and not the x100e. 
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  • Cant restore from rescue and recovery discs

    Hi Guys
    I bought a set of Windows 7 64bit Lenovo Rescue and Recovery Discs approx. 18 months ago so I could "restore" my X201 if and when the hard disk died, well the day has come and the discs dont work !!!
    I have attempted to "restore" to the new hard disk 3 times and this is now starting to become a joke.
    I boot the 1st disk, then I'm asked to insert the 2nd and then 3rd disks, I dont have a 4th disk but the process asks me for one. I believe that this is all working as it takes a number of hours and the drive lights is flickering except when I'm being asked to insert the next disc.
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    Has anyone had any experience with Win 7 64bit R & R discs for a X201 ???
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    NG

    I assume your issue is laptop boot mode related.
    In order to restore from Lenovo Recovery discs set laptop should be in legacy boot mode. Check out this option in BIOS setup. Unfortunately you'll can't change boot mode later. But this mode just speeds up a boot process only 2-3 secs.
    Boot and installation processes don't inform the customer about error boot mode related.
    Check out the 1st disc. If it consists a folder like BOOT and files like BOOTMGR and WINRE.WIM (all of them are for boot process) and folder like FACTORYRECOVERY - it's OK and your 1st data disk is bootable too.
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  • Recovery disc from Lenovo

    Hi all.  I have a T500 ThinkPad, and my hard drive failed the other day.  I never got around to making any recovery media, even though I have had the machine for almost a couple years.  I have read on the Lenovo support page that I can get a recovery disc from them.  My question though is whether this includes the OS.  It would seem that it would, but I just want to make sure.  Thanks.

    Yeahh, recovery media you can order for your model, completely recover your laptop to state of your first switchining on of your machine. It creates hidden recovery partition on your disc and of course system partition C with operating system and all drivers and applications. The first step should be eavch time firstly to burn your Recovery Media, if you did not do it, unfortunatelly it will cost you some money, i have paid for recovery media about 30 EUR.
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  • How to create Rescue and Recovery disc for Windows Vista Home Basic with G530 Lenovo Laptop?

    Hi All,
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    I went across the forums and came to know that it is not available now-a-days as it was coming previously.
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  • Help: Lenovo N500 will not start, product recovery disc won't run

    Hi. I am a bit of a laptop dunce so excuse me. My Lenovo N500 has been shutting itself down and not always restarting and the last time I tried a reinstall through the on board system but after a day and a half it was stuck and not changing so I turned it off. Clearly a mistake.
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    hi Cj75,
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    Keep on tapping the F8 key once you power on the system. Then select the Repair your computer option from the boot menu that appears. 
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    Type BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD, and then press ENTER. 
     If this still failed I believe you really have to Reinstall Windows on this
    Try contacting Support in your Are to Order a recovery CD (Fees may apply)
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  • Lenovo T61p - Product recovery disc creation fails

    Hi,
    I tried creating a set of product recovery disc, the process started decently to extract the information/files. Then the process abruptly stops and gives a msg saying "The process has encountered an internal error."
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    Rgds,
    Sumit

    As  lead_org  says, call Lenovo and explain the problem you have encountered, especially the error message, "The process has encountered an internal error." If they don't offer to send you free recovery media, politely explain to them that it's not your fault that you can't make the media on your own. If you're firm and persistent (call back later and try another agent) they will relent
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  • 2 probs! HDD Formatted and no recovery discs and "1962 NO Operating System" error message

    Hi, I have had my Lenovo Idecentre B540 for approx 2 weeks now and my hard drive had to be formatted and windows reinstalled.  However, this means the partition is lost and i had no recovery disc or drivers disc with it so have been unable to get the touchscreen working and probably missing out on all the features that were the reasons for buying this machine.
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  • Windows 8 Recovery Disc not working

    Hi everbody,
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    Please have a look on the following picture taken with my smartphone.
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    Do you know how I can upgrade to Windows 8?
    Can you tell me why the upgrade disc is not working?
    Best Regards,
    Philipp Stöger
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    Dear Phisto, from your description i cannot tell you anything more about the disk apart from the obvious, that it seems to be incomplete without the other 11 disks of the set. Did you buy this disk from Lenovo, from Microsoft, or is it something that came from unofficial channels? If it is the latter maybe you should not try to install it...
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    I hope you solve this.
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  • Hard Drive Replacement - Installing Recovery Discs

    Hard drive crashed. Bought a new seagate 500g and installed. Ordered recovery discs for win 7 from lenovo. Four discs received - 1) startup recovery 2) operating system 3) drivers and applications 4) additional recovery disc. I power up the pc with disc 1 in. Message at the bottom of the screen that files are loading along with the white progress bar. Looking good to this point. When the progress bar is full it just stops and does nothing else. Does not prompt me to do anything else. If I wait 3 or 4 minutes the starting windows message appears. It just hangs there. If I wait another 3 or 4 minutes the entire process starts all over. If left alone it would go through that cycle all day. I am never prompted to do anything else. I have tried inserting disc 2 at all points along the way when disc 1 stops. I have tried booting up with disc 2 in. I get a message of operating system not found (of course because disc 2 is the os and it hasn't installed yet). I cannot get beyond disc 1 loading files. Need some support before I do something crazy like go to the geek squad.

    Hard drive crashed. Bought a new seagate 500g and installed. Ordered recovery discs for win 7 from lenovo. Four discs received - 1) startup recovery 2) operating system 3) drivers and applications 4) additional recovery disc. I power up the pc with disc 1 in. Message at the bottom of the screen that files are loading along with the white progress bar. Looking good to this point. When the progress bar is full it just stops and does nothing else. Does not prompt me to do anything else. If I wait 3 or 4 minutes the starting windows message appears. It just hangs there. If I wait another 3 or 4 minutes the entire process starts all over. If left alone it would go through that cycle all day. I am never prompted to do anything else. I have tried inserting disc 2 at all points along the way when disc 1 stops. I have tried booting up with disc 2 in. I get a message of operating system not found (of course because disc 2 is the os and it hasn't installed yet). I cannot get beyond disc 1 loading files. Need some support before I do something crazy like go to the geek squad.

  • Creating Recovery Discs for Win 7 - When Win7 Pro 64 is Preloaded from Win 8.1 Dowgrade Rights ?

    Novice questions:
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    JosephB wrote:
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  • Where can I purchase a Windows 7 Pro or Windows 8 Pro recovery discs?

    Guys,
    I have a Thinkpad T500 which I installed an Oracle Linux OS. Now I want to restore my gear to a Windows 7 or Windows 8 pro.
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    You might wish to try calling Lenovo Service to see if they can provide/sell you a WinVista set.
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  • Very Confused over Reinstall Discs, Recovery Discs and how do I CREATE THEM!

    I am the owner of a Lenova IdeaCenter K300 Computer with Windows 7 64Bit OS
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    First let me explain that this computer MFG after several calls to them looking for help.. explained to me the following
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    They should sell you recovery disc without any problems. If you call customer service and you feel that the conversation is going no ware you probably talking to wrong person. Disconnect and tray another time, you will never speak to the same person twice
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    Recovery disc is a copy of your computer hard drive with windows, drivers, software included
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    Reinstall OEM disc is only for Lenovo system but it is the same like retail windows disc with added pre-activation

  • How to use the rescue and recovery, and the product recovery discs ?

    Hi everyone,
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    T61 (7658CTO), T9300, 3GB, 250GB, XP Pro
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    blake_ibm wrote:
    Hi! I'm blake
    There is no diff between the two... One is on  the Hard Drive and the other on CD/DVD.
    Having the HDD version (pre-installed) is a good for trouble shooting.  It uses a whole diff O/S on a whole diff partition (not C.
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    Hi blake_ibm,
    Thanks. All this makes perfect sense to me, but that's not what I'm asking for. My question is this: if I wanted to bring my notebook to its factory shipped condition using my recovery cd's, how do I do that? Do I insert cd1 first and then restart the notebook, or do I just insert it without restarting it, or perhaps I should use first the rescue and recovery?
    You said that there is no difference between the two, but what two are you talking about man? I am not comparing cd recovery to partition recovery. I am talking about rescue and recovery cd, with system recovery cd's. These are the two things that I'm talking about.
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    I would really appreciate if someone could explain the steps involved in performing a clean factory recovery, using the cd's, and not the recovery partition. I just want to know for the future, in case one day I have to do it. That is all I'm asking.
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  • Windows 8 Recovery Discs

    I have called Lenovo for Recovery Discs to be shipped to me since I have none to fix my laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 8. THEY verified my serial number to make sure it was still under warranty. I told the rep I had Windows 8 to make sure to send the right ones and she seemed to disregard my comment and immediately said Oh these are.for the G780 yes. But never asked if I had a 32 or 64 bit OS. Does this matter as they pull all my computers info.via.the serial.or.do.I need to call back to make sure they send the right ones?

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