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I have a Lenovo N500 (Pentium duel core T3400 2.16, 3GB) Vista and my hard disk has failed (After 18 months!!!!).
The only recovery disks I have are XP Recovery/Downgrade.
I have put a new hard drive in and used the XP recovery disk, after the install XP boots for the first time and runs through the Lenovo post XP install, then on re-boot XP hangs during start-up.
The only way I can get XP to start normally is to boot to safe mode and disable one of the cores using MSConfig.
Given that it boots to safe mode with both cores enabled I figure that this is some problem with drivers/software. If I use SOS boot to try to get more info I get to the screen that list the processors memory etc and then it freezes, so not much help.
The laptop is up to date with all the drivers from Lenovo, and windows update. This happens with XP service pack 2 (This is what is installed from the recovery disk) and with SP3.
Have spent too long getting nowhere talking to Lenovo customer support in India, it looks like it will cost £45 to get a Vista disk sent to me!
If I can't get XP to work properly, does anybody know if you can use any Vista install media, or does it have to be a Lenovo Vista disk to work with the product key with the laptop?
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance

If your serial is for XP, you need the OEM version. That serial won't work with Retail version.
If you have Vista, you can use your serial. But you need to use phone activation because Lenovo's serial are blacklisted (al least with Windows 7 happens this issue).
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