T61 windows vista recovery procedure left system without wireless driver and host of other drivers

My hard-drive went bust (system wouldn't boot). Lenovo support left me with a new hard drive.  I used recovery CDs from lenovo to prime the new hard drive.  The installation left me with a system that has no wireless, display and other drivers. I go to device manager a see about 10 'Other devices' with unknown drivers.
Is this normal with the lenovo recovery CDs? (That i have to manually hunt all the drivers and install...)
Thanks for your response.
-jlogan
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jlogan wrote:
 Do you think reattempting the whole procedure would help?
Yes, 100%
Do not touch / interrupt anything, except for placing  the disc requested in the drive, until you are asked to personally enter your name or accept the EULA.
The dowork box is working, you may see error messages - ignore them. In fact, when you see the dowork DOS box, it's time to go do something else for an hour; coffee, wine, beer, chess.. whatever. When you come back all should be AOK and you can enter the date / time zone, name etc. etc.
In other words, don't touch, don't panic, let it do it's thing.
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