WTB/LF: A22m W98 Recovery Media

[theterminator93]

The first ThinkPad I bought for myself (albeit not the first I had ever owned) was an A22m back in 2004. When that unit started acting weirdly I shelved it and bought a newer unit, but about a year ago I decided to try resuscitating it with a working parts machine I acquired only to find that it worked fine. So I have two of them now; my original one I set up to use as I used it before I retired it, however I've yet to determine what to do with the second - so it sits without a HDD or OS at the moment, awaiting new life.

After recently having success getting a set of recovery disks from Lenovo for my new-to-me T420, I had the idea that I could restore this unit to its factory state and use it as a "demo" machine to "reminisce" about how the ThinkPad of the early 2000s was originally shipped from the factory.

That brings me to this question - does anyone have a recovery disk set for the A22m (Windows 98)? It's a 2628-TSU they can either burn/send or host .isos of? Or even a hard disk image, made with Ghost or Acronis...

[ajkula66]

That brings me to this question - does anyone know if there might be a way to acquire a recovery disk set for the A22m (Windows 98)? It's a 2628-TSU.

I'd post a WTB (want to buy) ad in the forum's Marketplace. Chances are that someone somewhere still has the media that you're looking for.

[theterminator93]

Ah yes... mods, please feel free to move this then to the marketplace. Not sure that I should be cross-posting.

Admin note: Done!

[theterminator93]

Thread bump...

[automobus]

I can provide Windows 98 for T20. You can probably use it for A22m, better than nothing, but you will need to fill gaps in drivers.

19K9271 is bootable disc 1

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Volume id: 19K9271
Volume size is: 209638
Creation Date:     2000 07 05 18:44:21.00
cksum 3255479160 429338624
MD5 e5e9cfc6b040875247100292cc582f38
SHA-1 77bdd4f525bff6f0ca75d08c140dfda13e2a346b
SHA-256 f537e48b4c451f9893a780c21598fd145480977ee93c420d90b98a8cc0b5a839

edit : add hyperlinks

[theterminator93]

I'm definitely willing to give that a try. What's your preferred method of transfer, .iso or snail mail?