relaod ThinkPad

[ran]

With any luck, I can reload Win 7 on this 2008 T61 ThinkPad with Nvidia video. A known problem, but that is not my problem today. It locks up and reloading Windows is the only thing left. I have a d/l of windows on USB, will try that first. fun times.
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2007 SE V6 Titanium

 

[theesotericone]

With any luck, I can reload Win 7 on this 2008 T61 ThinkPad with Nvidia video. A known problem, but that is not my problem today. It locks up and reloading Windows is the only thing left. I have a d/l of windows on USB, will try that first. fun times.

2008? Holy crap that's even older than my laptop I just replaced. Nice work man. If winblows doesn't want to work you should give linux a try. It runs really well on older machines and not CPU intensive at all. I switched to Linux 10 years ago and couldn't be happier.

 

[ran]

I was hoping this dual core could run something newer, but Lenovo never made Win 10 for it. Tried to d/l Win 7 from MS but it is a Lenovo key, no luck there. life, so much fun at times.

 

[TerraCrawler]

Even back in 2008 Thinkpads typically have a recovery partition you can access during startup, which will reload all OS/Thinkpad Utilities/etc makes doing it a snap......and all drivers are installed. I would do that if your going with Win7 anyways, and then just do a normal update. You'll have to google for what keys to hold down its been a while.

 

[ran]

I was hoping so. I bought this off of ebay. COA:Vista Bus. They had swapped hard drives and loaded Win 7 (Lenovo key). no partitions. I found out about the Key when I just tried to download from MS site, no luck sir, it is a Lenovo key. Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz, 8 GB MB, 15.4" LED. fun machine

 

[TerraCrawler]

I was hoping so. I bought this off of ebay. COA:Vista Bus. They had swapped hard drives and loaded Win 7 (Lenovo key). no partitions. I found out about the Key when I just tried to download from MS site, no luck sir, it is a Lenovo key. Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz, 8 GB MB, 15.4" LED. fun machine

I use to love the Thinklight you can turn on which illuminates the keyboard, back before backlit keyboards were common that was an awesome feature!

 

[ran]

The T61 still has that light. great for late night work. Lenovo Forum may be able to help me now.

 

[HSP22]

I guess Lenovo Forum will be able to help you.

 

[ran]

the guys at Lenovo forum sent me a disc, it is up and running. First, it didn't take my key, so I bypassed that and did the 200+ updates. A few days later, I checked, only 1 day left (before it goes black??) Reloaded my key and it is up and running. still loading programs, I Lost Office 2010. Any cheap Office deals out there? I even have the key, but Lenovo says I'm not the original owner. fun times, hate to load my out of date Office 2003.