Thinkpads Forum

Hi all,
This is my first post. I have just purchased a used ThinkPad T60 Intel Core 2 T7200 @ 2.00 GHz 2 GB of Ram. It came with XP home. To get the fully capacity of this computer I was thinking of purchasing and installing Windows XP Pro 64-bit Edition and reinstalling the drivers from the Lenovo website. Would this work? Also, could I still use XP Office (32bit) if I'm running XP Pro (64 Bit)? Any other suggestions would be helpful on the best way to reformat this puppy. Thanks again.

truehoosier wrote:Would this work? Also, could I still use XP Office (32bit) if I'm running XP Pro (64 Bit)? Any other suggestions would be helpful on the best way to reformat this puppy. Thanks again.

Yes, it will work and so would office XP but to be certain about the latter check with microsoft.

Before formatting do yourself a favor and burn a set of product recovery disks. Start >All Programs >ThinkVantage>Create Rescue and Recovery Media>Recovery Discs (this is how I see it on Vista, XP might have different order/names).

Be sure to use compatibility mode in the BIOS, otherwise your XP cd won't find your HDD. This page will give you more instructions.

When you're done installing XP, install Thinkvantage System Update it will gather all available drivers for your system.

Also, look into this thread and follow the instructions GomJabbar has provided.

Thanks, great info.

When you say get the full capacity what do you mean? I don't know that XP 64 offers you much unless you have a specific need. Driver support for XP64 has not been very good.

What I mean by running at full capacity is that my ThinkPad T60 Intel Core 2 T7200 @ 2.00 GHz 2 GB of Ram runs slow. Should I just use my recovery CD's and do a fresh reinstall to see if runs any faster?

Maybe you could try this and also, did you check your system with spybot and a antivirus to check if you are infected.

Did you defrag your HDD by the way

Having all the ThinkVantage Tools boot with Windows slows things a bit. If you want to speed things up you should do a clean install.