Reinstall OS on T43 1871-39J

[joykrab]

Now I am in Tokyo and I am interesting to buy my first Thinkpad (T43 1871-39J ). However, the cheap one here is only come with Japanese window.

So I am thinking to reinstall the English window. Could someone help me how can I do it? Do I have to format my HDD before reinstall and is there any effect on the function of thinkpad itself.

Arigatou.

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So I am thinking to reinstall the English window. Could someone help me how can I do it? Do I have to format my HDD before reinstall and is there any effect on the function of thinkpad itself.

Arigatou.

I bought my T42 and my X32 in Tokyo. So, they both came with a Japanese keyborad and OS. I replaced the keyboard with a US keyboard, then I made a clean install of English Windows on both. They work perfectly. You wipe out your hard drive and install English windows with necessary drivers, and that's all. It is straight forward.
(If you don't want to clean install, or if you don't know how to do it, you can buy English restore CD's and restore English system. I did this with my T42 once, but any way I prefer clean install as I don't want many of the pre-installed programs, and I don't want my system to take 5 minutes to start.)


This said, I don't know about T43, but I suppose it is the same thing.

[joykrab]

Thank you very much for both of you.

I am thinking to buy one of T43 or T60. Do you have any opinion about the performance? The price here in Japan is

T43 with PM1.73GHz 60GB 512MB Combodrive is 130,0000 yen.
T60 with DuoT2400 80GB 512MB Multidrive is 160,000 yen.

Could I buy English restore CD easily from IBM center?

Many thanks.

[freedomtraveler]

ok ,i think maybe i can give you some suggestions.
first ,i have a T43 a few months ago, it works perfectly. compare with t43,T60 has the higher hardware such as cpu, Video Card and so on, especially the Video Card,if you want use Vistia in furture i think T60 is the better choice.
second ,something about the OS. One way is some guys said to buy English restore CD's and restore English system.Never try to do clean install,because install the hardware drivers are a very trouble job. In China ,it'll be easy to do the work with the software Ghost, i don't know whether you can use Ghost in your Country.

[christopher_wolf]

ok ,i think maybe i can give you some suggestions.
first ,i have a T43 a few months ago, it works perfectly. compare with t43,T60 has the higher hardware such as cpu, Video Card and so on, especially the Video Card,if you want use Vistia in furture i think T60 is the better choice.
second ,something about the OS. One way is some guys said to buy English restore CD's and restore English system.Never try to do clean install,because install the hardware drivers are a very trouble job. In China ,it'll be easy to do the work with the software Ghost, i don't know whether you can use Ghost in your Country.

This is going to lead off-topic; the user didn't ask for suggestions for what Thinkpad to get. Rather, the question concerned how to put an English localization of Windows XP on it.

[freedomtraveler]

ok ,i think maybe i can give you some suggestions.
first ,i have a T43 a few months ago, it works perfectly. compare with t43,T60 has the higher hardware such as cpu, Video Card and so on, especially the Video Card,if you want use Vistia in furture i think T60 is the better choice.
second ,something about the OS. One way is some guys said to buy English restore CD's and restore English system.Never try to do clean install,because install the hardware drivers are a very trouble job. In China ,it'll be easy to do the work with the software Ghost, i don't know whether you can use Ghost in your Country.

This is going to lead off-topic; the user didn't ask for suggestions for what Thinkpad to get. Rather, the question concerned how to put an English localization of Windows XP on it.

ok~ i think i have been given the method to solve it~
Arigatou want to put the english OS on the Japan machine
use the restore CD's or use the software ghost is easy to solve the problem.
why you said my post is going to lead off-topic?

[christopher_wolf]

This is going to lead off-topic; the user didn't ask for suggestions for what Thinkpad to get. Rather, the question concerned how to put an English localization of Windows XP on it.

ok~ i think i have been given the method to solve it~
Arigatou want to put the english OS on the Japan machine
use the restore CD's or use the software ghost is easy to solve the problem.
why you said my post is going to lead off-topic?

Because it was. You were beginning to recommend a T60 to the OP; as such, the majority of the post is not even about Ghost or how to use it for the intended purpose. The OP *specifically* asked for a way to re-localize Windows XP to Pro.

As far as I know, you cannot get IBM/Lenovo to willingly sell you a set of R&R disks for a system you do not have. The T43 with the English OS and Keyboard has a different model number.

Neither do you outline any of this in clear, easy-to-understand, intelligible english. Which doesn't help anybody.

[freedomtraveler]

ok~ i think i have been given the method to solve it~
Arigatou want to put the english OS on the Japan machine
use the restore CD's or use the software ghost is easy to solve the problem.
why you said my post is going to lead off-topic?

Because it was. You were beginning to recommend a T60 to the OP; as such, the majority of the post is not even about Ghost or how to use it for the intended purpose. The OP *specifically* asked for a way to re-localize Windows XP to Pro.

As far as I know, you cannot get IBM/Lenovo to willingly sell you a set of R&R disks for a system you do not have. The T43 with the English OS and Keyboard has a different model number.

Neither do you outline any of this in clear, easy-to-understand, intelligible english. Which doesn't help anybody.

i admire you are a very responsible moderator .but i can't agree with you.
first, you can find what the OP want form that the OP says "I am thinking to buy one of T43 or T60. Do you have any opinion about the performance? ", it shows that the OP want some suggestions on buying T43 or T60.

second,the OP want to put the english OS on the Japan machine,that is the problem.i give the way to use ghost to solve it,and i think it's the easiest method.

third,yes,like you said,you cannot get IBM/Lenovo to willingly sell you a set of R&R disks for a system you do not have,but you can use other restore disks from other machines.you maybe know people can backup their OS with R&R,they can burn the restore CD's by themselves,i think the OP could borrow the cds from his friends.

fourth,you say "The T43 with the English OS and Keyboard has a different model number.",but what it affects?, could it result the English OS cannot work on the machine? i use T43-D19 from Singapore ,and i use the OS winXP from my friends T43-44U which produce from the USA. it's no problem,and i see some guys said in the post ,he buys the English restore CD's and restore English system.and used it in his T42 which he had bought from japan, everything is ok~

[GomJabbar]

second,the OP want to put the english OS on the Japan machine,that is the problem.i give the way to use ghost to solve it,and i think it's the easiest method.

I fail to see how the OP can ghost something he doesn't have. He does not have a ThinkPad yet. A ghost from another Windows computer would likely cause problems because the hardware is different. A "friend" with a T43 would not likely want to give someone a ghosted copy of his hard drive, as it would contain all his personal files.

[joykrab]

Sorry for our misunderstanding in this topic.

Actually I am thinking to buy one of T43 or T60 depending on its performance-cost effective to fullfill my desire. I asked for the opinion on this issue as well.

But also the main problem before that is the problem relating to how to reinstall English OS to Japanese TP model.

I read all of your comments. And can be conclude like this. If it is not correct, please correct me.

1. I cannot creat R&R English version from the Japanese model.
2. I cannot get the R&R English vesion from IBM.
3. I have to creat a R&R CD from my friend T43 (English model), in order to recover the factory installed of my T43 (Japanese model) after I formatted the HDD.

Then assumed I got R&R CD from my freind, could you tell me how to process after that, if I also have my own window XP English version CD.

Thank you very much for all comments and answers.