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I am looking for a set of T40/p restore cd's. I recently bought a T40p from ebay but it's only got a 40gb hard drive and i have a new 80gb laptop drive i'd like to put in it but i need to use the restore cd's to restore the predesktop environment and windows on the new hard drive.

I would highly appreciate it if anybody who happens to have a set of T40/p restore cd's IBM part number 01R8046 could copy them to a set of cd-r's and send them to me via mail or image them and upload them to me (either via AIM or ftp to my file server or by some other means we work out by email).

if you have these cd's, please drop me an e-mail at cpgeek AT cpgeek.org

thanks!

Have you tried creating restore disks using the 40Gb drive, or was the drive wiped?

tfflivemb2 wrote:Have you tried creating restore disks using the 40Gb drive, or was the drive wiped?

I accidentally wiped it not knowing any better... i thought that stuff was held in flash someplace... maybe in the future...

sorry, i didn't realize i posted this in the wrong place, must have been tired heh

i'm now in desperate need of these recovery cd's... i'm under warranty, i tried to talk to ibm but they want me to order them at $45 for something i should have been given with my computer in the first f$*@ place.

i'm rather irrate at ibm...

if anybody ends up having them, please tell me so. thanks!

I can offer your recovery CD/DVD from T42p (2373-P1U). I'm pretty sure they'll work for T40p as well. Let me know if you're interested.

-- Andrey

andrey wrote:I can offer your recovery CD/DVD from T42p (2373-P1U). I'm pretty sure they'll work for T40p as well. Let me know if you're interested.

-- Andrey

it's a different part number for the t42p, it's 2 generations newer than the t40p.

thanks anyway

I recently purchased a set of T40 Restore CD's from a friend. He had made me copies to provide with the T40's I sold here recently, then decided to just sell me the CD's AFTER I already sold the laptops. Now I did promise to give those CD's to dorronto so I can't give them to you, and I was going to ship them out today with a battery he wanted, but I'll hold off for a day if you really need a set that bad. I will ship you out a copy of this set tomorrow if you provide me your address and send me about $5 just to cover the Priority Mail shipping. Events have kept me away from here a lot lately so I didn't see your request until this morning. Let me know via e-mail if this is OK with you.

-Yak

I just got confirmation from yak that he's going to be sending me a set of t40p recovery cd's... thanks everybody who tried to help!

Yak is a great guy that can be fully trusted for any transaction.