XP on shipped T400 under Windows 7 Professional Downgrade Rights- Possible to Dual Boot?

I just received the laptop, and booted Windows XP, all configured and such. I then created recovery discs using the Lenovo utility. If I boot from these discs, will they give the option of installing Windows 7 in a separate partition and dual booting?
If no option is given to dual boot, then will discs allow installation of Windows 7, clean install, over the XP partition?
Also, I apologize in advance if I have missed a thread that directly addresses this question. Please direct me to it.
Thanks!
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Confederate wrote:
To answer your questions:
>>If I boot from these discs, will they give the option of installing Windows 7 in a separate partition and dual booting?
No, the recovery disks will restore Windows XP on the system. Lenovo doesn't support DualBoot configs.
>If no option is given to dual boot, then will discs allow installation of Windows 7, clean install, over the XP partition?
A clean install infers a format of the hard drive.
I have written a clean install doc for Windows 7 that should be posted in the next day or so.
Terry
Lenovo Win 7 dev team
Lenovo Enterprise Systems Expert.
Thanks. I will look for it. I believe you have answered my question.

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