So far this seems to be working. Thanks again to Ted/Dominique.
Now, a warning.
The W7 disk linked at the thread on Bill's site is evidently older than the
6200n wifi adapter in the T410, as it does not pick it up on installation.
(In fact, the installation missed quite a few bits of hardware.) Of course,
you need a network connection to run Thinkpad Update, so on another machine
I went to the Lenovo support site driver matrix for the T410, grabbed the
latest network driver package for the 6200n, and installed it on the T410.
Didn't work.
After over an hour of monkeying around with no success, I went back to the
Lenovo download page for a closer look. Sure enough, while the entry header
reads "This package installs the software (Wireless LAN driver and utility)
to enable the following devices:...Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200, 6205...",
when you scroll way down to the summary of changes for the latest driver it
says: "Suspended support for the following adapters tentatively. Intel
Centrino Advanced-N 6200..."
Dear Lenovo numbskulls: if at the top of the page you describe your driver
as especially for a piece of hardware, please do not bury in the fine print
that that particular piece of hardware is not in fact supported. (While
we're at it, in a 250MB file you can't find room to include support for this
popular adapter?) Make another web page/entry in the matrix if you need to
for adapters not included in the driver, or at least do not claim they are
supported when they are not.
David
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From: "Ted Wiseman" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:54 PM
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] W7 32 to 64 bit: what do I need?
On 8/3/2011 11:09 PM, David Ross wrote:
I have a refurbed T410 on order that comes preinstalled with W7
Professional
32 bit. I would like to change it to 64 bit. Apparently some recovery
media
from Lenovo lets you do this:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-74752
Can I do it as well with what I already have on hand?
I do have a W7 Ultimate upgrade edition DVD (from an upgrade from Vista
on
another machine) that has both 32 and 64 bit installs on it, and my
X201t is
running 64 bit W7 Professional and I have a recovery preload from it
available. Can I make the change with one of these, or do I have to
track down the
media from Lenovo?
I don't know the answer with regard to any of the scenarios you mentioned,
but on 12/4/11 Dominique Pivard posted to this list a legal/free method
for installing W7 Pro 64 on an X301 originally loaded with W7 Pro 32. He
linked to this thread on Bill Morrow's forum
http://forums.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=92409&p=605554#p605554
and the last three posts in that thread contain the relevant info.
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