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Old Jul 16, 2007 | 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by MisterNice
Are you certain the built-in OP is corrupted? I thought it was very secure. I would try to make the recovery disks from it and try reinstall. You can buy the OP from Lenovo as noted but it takes 10-14 days.

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didn't realize I could make recovery disks from the built-in bits....thought that I could just reinstall XP by pressing F<something> during bootup...don't remember the F-key and I'm not at home to try it...anyway that method just gave lots of errors and eventually locked up
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