Does anyone have a copy of the original Windows 7 recovery media for the X1 Carbon Gen 2? I can find gen 1, and most other later gens. But not this machine. Currently it’s running it’s factory install, but it’s horrendously slow and I’m not fully sure why. And sadly the built in create recovery media option says there’s nothing to be found.
Does anyone else have any experience with these machines? Were their SSDs always so horribly slow? 550mbps read is good, but 100mbps writes is bad even by 2013 standards. The touchbar takes what feels like ages to respond, and with age has discolored in a really gross way. Overall it seems like a pretty well built machine. But man, what was Lenovo thinking?
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I can’t help you with the recovery media, but a couple of the problems you describe were resolved with driver and firmware updates that are still available from the oem.
I’m attempting to avoid that since a lot of the installers/software tend to get delisted or just straight up don’t work. I’ve had a ton of issues getting older machines set up and 100% fully functional and I’m worried the #1 gimmick of the machine will just straight up not work.
Since I haven’t found anything yet I guess I’ll image the drive just in case, and try doing a fresh install and see what all doesn’t work afterwards.
You can perform the bios update via bootable media. Here are the readme and iso links.