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Hey guys, lost again, just when you thought you knew how. Mounted Kinston 64 in HDD bay and tried to install xp from R&R disks, after getting to the R&R console and accepting agreement it gets a flag that says and error occur, the end. So I tried a T43 and a T43 R&R disk but same thing. So next I tried to clone with Clonezilla but that was a no go as the old drive is and 80 GB and the new is a 64 BG. Next I put my ultra bay carrier in and put original disk in ultrabay and Kingston in HDD bay, tried Aeomi using the migrate OS to HDD or SSD command, only moving the NTFS part and not the small FAT32 partition, worked fine but blue screen telling to try check disk on drive but check disk says drive has problems. Next I tried just disk copy with same results. So now I've left it alone for a few hours trying to come up with another different attempt, any help out there?


burns, thanks in advance

A couple of things here:

a) T60 XP recovery media will only install with the SATA controller in the "Compatibility" mode.

b) "Compatibility" mode is exactly what you DON'T want with a SSD.

c) You seem to have a soft spot for picking up the bottom-of-the-barrel SSD offerings...

You may want to look into this thread: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=105987

But a lot of months later, my Kingston is still working flawlessly under win8.1, boot-time under 20secs and crisp performance

AKJ, that really helped, put bios in compatibility mode, clone, and all works, downloaded Intel chipset drivers and got it into AHCI, go figure

burns

I guess you missed the second point of my post...

ajkula66 wrote: b) "Compatibility" mode is exactly what you DON'T want with a SSD.

I've got it in AHCI mode now and aligned

burns334 wrote:I've got it in AHCI mode now and aligned

Good.

Now what do I need to do in order to convince you to dump XP and install W7 so you can finally enjoy the potential of that ThinkPad?

AKJ, I use W7 all the time, I just have never gotten comfortable with it. Just yesterday I did a search for "make W7 look more like Xp", I just keep saying "why" when I use it. I was actually thinking of buying a copy of W7 and trying to get comfortable with it, just sayin. So if you want to put W7 on a Y60 or T43 what do you buy? will it have all the drivers etc?

Burns

burns334 wrote: Just yesterday I did a search for "make W7 look more like Xp", I just keep saying "why" when I use it.

All you have to do is turn off all the eye candy, and it will look *exactly* like XP, or even W2K.

I was actually thinking of buying a copy of W7 and trying to get comfortable with it, just sayin. So if you want to put W7 on a Y60 or T43 what do you buy? will it have all the drivers etc?

Burns

You buy whatever you want...definitely 32-bit for a T43 since it won't run anything else, and I'd suggest the same for T60 given the 3GB RAM cap. You need a C2D CPU on the T60 to run a 64-bit OS, but it's pointless IMO.

All the drivers are there. Vista ones work 99.9% of the time with no issues.

ajkula66 wrote:
All you have to do is turn off all the eye candy, and it will look *exactly* like XP, or even W2K.

AKJ, can you point me towards a thread or link that details the candy you can get rid of?

burns

Control Panel>Personalization.

You can choose a classic mode and the desktop will look just like W2K or XP.

I would also like to point you to [ http://www.classicshell.net/ ]. It solves a number of minor annoyances, and it is also compatible with Windows 8 and 8.1.