Windows xp professional pre installed through down grade rights in windows 7

wondering if anyone else is in my shoes and what to do about it.
I recently bought a T500 that had XP installed on it as part of the downgrade rights of Win7 pro.
The problem is I dont know exactly how i am supposed to install windows 7 when I am ready.  No media came with the laptop.  I know that if XP is installed I have to do a clean install and need the actual Windows 7 program.
Multiple calls to tech support, sales and custormer service have yielded basically "i dont know" or "you have to buy it".  This is ridiculous because the whole point of me getting this was to be able to install windows 7 at a later time (and thats how they sold it too).
Can anyone shed light on this?  Thanks 

fury212 wrote:
wondering if anyone else is in my shoes and what to do about it.
I recently bought a T500 that had XP installed on it as part of the downgrade rights of Win7 pro.
The problem is I dont know exactly how i am supposed to install windows 7 when I am ready.  No media came with the laptop.  I know that if XP is installed I have to do a clean install and need the actual Windows 7 program.
Multiple calls to tech support, sales and custormer service have yielded basically "i dont know" or "you have to buy it".  This is ridiculous because the whole point of me getting this was to be able to install windows 7 at a later time (and thats how they sold it too).
Can anyone shed light on this?  Thanks 
I don't have a similarly configurated machine, so the below is just my two cents.
You can use ThinkAdvantage tools  to create XP recovery DVDs. This makes sure you can reload XP if you want. The Lenovo Windows 7 image is probably in the recovery partition. Which means that if you boot into the recovery partition and restore my laptop to original factory image, it will be Windows 7 and ready to use.

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