[Thinkpad] Anyone got a source for Win 2K recovery disks for T23?

[Mark Gardiner]

Also remember, if at all possible, you can reinstate a 'clean' working XP setup with all drivers
from an ISO boot image.

Of course it will only be up to the capacity of a 4.7Gb DVD-R, but it should allow
more than the basic setup to be painlessly reinstalled - albeit the length of time it takes
which was 2 hours+ for my T23 from an external 1.1 USB link using one created with Paragon Exact Image 7.
No reactivation required.

Mark
UK
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From:	"Anthony R. Gold", INTERNET:thinkpadlist2 at ahjg.co.uk
TO:	"Thinkpad Mailing List", INTERNET:thinkpad at stderr.org
DATE:	22/02/07 22:02

RE:	Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone got a source for Win 2K recovery disks for T23?

 
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:37:15 -0500, Jon Kelly wrote:

> On 2/22/07, Anthony R. Gold <thinkpadlist2 at ahjg.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> That is wrong and highly misleading.  The IBM OEM version of WinXP never
>> need either activation or reactivation.
>
> Tony -- isn't that statement only hold true if you are installing it onto
> IBM hardware?  (e.g. not in a VM running on any hardware - IBM or other, or
> directly onto non-IBM hardware.)
> I believe that is the case for other OEM versions.

It's my belief that IBM's OEM WinXP software will either install without
activation or not allow itself to be installed at all.  I don't know of
any intermediate state which requires or even allows activation, but I'm
happy to hear of other experiences.  I never tried to install this
software either on non-IBM hardware or in a VM under another OS.