IBM rescue and recovery will not work for the previously suggested method. You need a retail disk.
Can you boot anything - a "live" CD or whatever - from that media drive using F12 to choose it as a temporary boot device? Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> To: Alex Austin <[email protected]> Cc: Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 9:46 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 BSOD et sequelae please help OK good thought. Issues: 1-I have no Windows CD but do have the IBM "Rescue and Recovery CD" Will this work? 2-The device will no longer recognize the CD drive as noted in earlier message. More good ideas? On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:09:44 -0500, Alex Austin wrote: >Find a Windows (same version) Install CD. Tell it to install on the same >existing partition, and it'll offer to "repair" that installation. Do that, >and you should be good. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
