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Submitted by heweijie2003 on January 23, 2007 - 4:46am. Other Computers

There is a thinkpad 760xd,which has a cd-rom driver but can not boot from it(BIOS don't support it),no floppy driver.This is a pretium 2 machine ,has 32mb ram ,installed windows xp by a mistake.Now my question is how can i do to install windows 98 to it.

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Did you install XP by putting

Submitted by themike on January 23, 2007 - 4:48am.

Did you install XP by putting the drive in another machine?

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I think

Submitted by heweijie2003 on January 23, 2007 - 5:04am.

sorry ,this notebook is otherone's.But I thought it may be this siutation ,the guy installed windows xp in windows 98 from cd-rom,and then reboot ,system failure

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is there

Submitted by heweijie2003 on January 23, 2007 - 5:17am.

Had someone experienced the same problem?Please ,please give me some instructions to help me slove this problem.

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What you have to do is put th

Submitted by themike on January 23, 2007 - 5:24am.

What you have to do is put the drive in another machine that can boot from CD-ROM, erase the drive, and reinstall Windows 98.

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now first, i need to say "tha

Submitted by heweijie2003 on January 23, 2007 - 5:57am.

now first, i need to say "thank you" to 'themike ',for your help.
But i don't have the experience to remove the hdd from the notebook.
Is there any mannual which can give me the detail.

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You are quite welcome. I d

Submitted by themike on January 23, 2007 - 6:39am.

You are quite welcome.

I don't know of any manauls, however, from the Thinkpads I have opened, the inside is usually accessed by removing the keyboard, and the hard drive is inside somewhere.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, you may be able to find something here:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/18797

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Thank you again

Submitted by heweijie2003 on January 23, 2007 - 7:56am.

I thank you again for you so kindly help me.

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Re: HD Removal from TP760XD

Submitted by sonnyhung on January 23, 2007 - 5:07pm.

Here is where to get the hardware manitenance manual for the TP760XD.

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=PFAN-3TJKLN

I think it starts on page 260 with a picture diagram on how to open the unit (keyboad) then on look on page 263 where they show the removal of the Hard Drive.

If anyone is looking for hardware maintenance manuals for Lenovo( formerly IBM) do a search. You should be able to find this:

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-39298.html

This is the link currently for all their ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Manuals.

HTH

Oh by the way I use to work for Ogilvy & Mather in the IT Dept handling Laptop Support (IBM's Global Advertisers back then - not sure if they still are but probably) IBM always tried to make things easy and grouped for easy access. As long as you get to their Index or Matrix then your good as gold and you will be able to find most stuff other than software where you need to have their originals for the older hardware s they only have updates usually for software packages... I started out on the 760's back then while users had the similar or higher models. When I left there they were already a few interations into the A/X/T/R/G Series.

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