Hi everyone: I have Thinkpad T410s (2912-W6H) from Lenovo. No recovery discs available at the moment and I'm trying to avoid paying for them. I have good Windows 7 DVDs here.

Someone installed Windows XP x32 on the machine. No, not for this machine, sir. I need to install Windows 7 x32, but I don't wish to use Lenovo's System Update Utility. The reason is that I like to be able to create backups with folders nested in other folders with the actual names of drivers, versions, etc. As I understand it, System Update is the 'idiot-proof tool' which just downloads everything, doesn't organize it into folders, and installs it (no choice about that). Is this correct?

When I tried instead to use Lenovo's website to download a whole pile of drivers, I picked out what I wanted, and then when I clicked 'download selected', the screen dimmed darker, and I nothing proceeded to happen. I'm guessing the website has some Flash issues or?? Tried this on two desktop machines (not the Thinkpad), both with Windows 7 SP1. I tried Firefox 15.x, and IE 9.0.9. In both cases, I got the same darkened screen, and absolutely nothing happened from there. When I spoke to Lenovo support, they told me it was.temperamental. Can someone tell me if there's a way to download all those drivers easily (without downloading one at a time.) Is this is a Lenovo website issue or is it something I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: As a last resort, I just noticed there is a 25GB partition on the drive, and an 86.8 GB partition on the drive. Could one of these be a recovery partition? I tried hitting ThinkVantage button at bootup prompt, but the machine did not prompt for any type of system recovery. Even if I don't use System recovery partition, I'd at least like to know if that option was available at the moment. Thanks in advance. With all due respect folks, I appreciate the replies, but they're not answering my question. They're expressing what you folks prefer and they do not meet one of my two and only two criteria.

Paget trading ltd 9159 instructions. Clearly, if the System Update utility doesn't preserve filenames or organize the drivers in some other way, then it doesn't meet my needs. I'm making a mountain out of a molehill.because I have 2 criteria? I said I was not looking for 'idiot-proof software' as much as the ability to automate downloading the regular files. So, no one has any idea how to get the Lenovo website download list working in my browser?

Can anyone confirm whether the Lenovo System Update utility allows uninstall, such as through Control Panel? Otherwise, anything I uninstall, I'll have to go through device manager to do and that will also be very slow.

Free Download Lenovo Power Management Driver 1.67.11.8 for Windows 10 (Other Drivers & Tools).

Use the damned tool, get your system up and running, then look in C: Drivers. All your drivers will be there. Yes, it's true, most of the file names do not inform you of their contents, but it's trivial to run the file and see what it is (it will tell you on the first prompt after the UAC prompt), then rename the file and organize it how you'd like.

I don't really see the point in organizing them like the way your described, but if that's an OCD tendency of yours I don't think what I've described is any more work than what you're going through now. Good to know that the software puts the files into one directory. Does Driver Grabber organize anything into folders, or at least maintain English filenames for drivers, or does it basically do the same thing as System Update? I couldn't tell from their website.