Dear Steve, I successfully installed a retail version of Windows 7 32-bit onmy wife's T61p. Simply download Thinkvantage system update to external media, install Windows 7 on your computer, install System Update, let it install the software you need and you should be good to go. I have done the same on a T400, T420 and T520 in recent months. I doubt that this will allow you to set up the recovery partition but I routinely delete those from my Thinkpads anyway. Bruce
[email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]> > To: Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 12:53 pm > Subject: [Thinkpad] W7 for a T61 > > > > > ...Has Lenovo gone completely incompetent on the phone? One > of my users called Lenovo to find out how to get W7 for her T61, > and the alleged person on the phone said that Lenovo didn't sell > software and that she needed to talk to Microsoft for it. > > I'm currently looking at the labyrinth that is Lenovo.com and > so far haven't found where to get W7 DVDs. Any clues on where > they are? I'm looking for the W7 set so I can create a W7 recovery > partition. > > Thanks all, STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
