(This assumes I have a legit XP COA on the T61, so everything's legal.) Is there a way I can use an installed Windows XP installation from a T41 (PATA) to install XP on a wiped hard drive to be used in a T61 (SATA)?
The T41 came with Windows XP pre-installed, and no XP setup disks. I've also never been able to find any mechanism within the bootable recovery partition to create setup disks. (And, it will be challenging to access the recovery partition at all today, since I've since moved to a >128gb hard drive, and will need to swap a smaller drive back in that recognizes the recovery partition.) Can I go through a process like this one, working with just the contents of the T41's I386 folder? http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_on_ThinkPads_without_CD-ROM_drive#Installing_Windows_2000_or_XP And, if so, will Windows complain about needing reactivation, or is the fact that it was a Thinkpad OEM build that never needed activation mean that it will happily run on a new model of Thinkpad with different hardware? If I can find a way to clone the T41's PATA drive onto the T61's SATA drive, will Windows boot, and function minimally well enough to allow correcting all the drivers to work with the T61? Thank you for any suggestions! - TK _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
