[ltp] Product recovery disc for T43

Martin Steigerwald linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:33:51 +0200


Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011 schrieb James Knott:
> I recently acquired a ThinkPad T43.  It appears to run openSUSE 11.4
> fairly well, but it didn't come with the original XP Pro recovery disc
> or partition.  It had a corrupted version of Windows 7 on it.  Is there
> any recommended places to obtain the recovery disc?  I didn't see one
> on the Lenovo site.  The T43 has the licence sticker on the bottom.=20
> Even an ISO file is good enough.  Unfortunately, I still have to run
> Windows for a couple of things.  :-(

I=B4d go for installing Windows XP into a VirtualBox guest. Then you can=20
carry your Windows around, when you switch to a different laptop. I did so=
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when I switched from my T42 to the new T520. (I still have the T42 around=20
with the license key.)

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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