[ltp] X60s: Reinstalling on a 100 GB

Donald B. Altman linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:11:31 -0400


** Reply to message from Bill Sheppard <Bill.Sheppard@Sun.COM> on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:40:22 -0700

Hello again,

> Perhaps you can boot using the original HD, create restore media from
> there (this should be an option, either from the restore partition or a
> Windows utility), then install the new disk, boot from the restore media
> you just created to create your "standard" Windows partition, then
> install a good OS.

This didn't work for me.  When I tried to use the restore disks I built from
my old disk, they tried to boot to the restore partition before restoring.  That's
when I called IBM service and got the full set of product restore disks.

Good luck,

Don A

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Donald B. Altman
Singular Technologies
Croton-on-Hudson,  NY