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How can I get a Product Recovery CD or DVD?

Recover your system with the hard drive service partition

Create your own recovery media with Rescue and Recovery

Purchase a recovery CD or DVD

Total Recovery Solution for IDEA products - Instructions

Note: Recovering your system will overwrite all data on your system with the factory pre-load as it was shipped with your system.

Recover your system with the hard drive service partition

A service partition has been included with newer systems. You can access your service partition during the startup process.

How to use the pre-boot service partition to recover your system

Create your own recovery media with Rescue and Recovery

If you have a CDRW or CDRW/DVDRW drive, Rescue and Recovery may be used to create a personalized backup on CDs or DVDs, that includes all of your added software, setting changes, and data files.

Learn more about Rescue and Recovery

Purchase a recovery CD or DVD

If you cannot use the service partition or have had hard drive failure, you will need to obtain a recovery CD or DVD by contacting the Support Center.

Note: We no longer distribute recovery media for the following discontinued operating systems:

Windows 95
Windows 98, 98SE
Windows NT
Windows Me
Windows 2000

Downgrading from certain versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 to Windows XP

Purchase a recovery CD or DVD by calling the Support Center

Total Recovery Solution for IDEA products - Instructions

Instructional guides for total recovery solution for IDEA products are available in the following languages:

	Danish		English
	French		German
	Hebrew		Swedish

If you are unable to find what you are looking for, please do try the following options:
1. Lenovo Assisted Search
2. Product usage and general troubleshooting tips
3. Lenovo Support Forum
4. Technical Support Call Centre

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