X300 - XP Rescue & Recovery
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:34 pm
Hi All,
I have a Japanese X300 which shipped by default with VISTA Business. Lenovo Japan were also kind enough to include a set of recovery media for both VISTA Business and XP Professional, as well as have the on-board rescue and recovery partition (around 4.5 gig).
Originally, I deleted VISTA and installed XP via the recovery media provided. During the install process, I could not see a way to customise the install (I like my OS etc to be as light as possible - no bloatware etc)
From what I have read, it appears to be impossible to do a clean install of XP with what they have provided. Can anyone confirm? I wouldn't mind doing a clean install using another XP Pro CD, but am worried about the SDD drive controller drivers, as well as the special version diskeeper software (I remember reading these have been designed to work together to spread reads/writes more evenly across the drive).
Thanks,
I have a Japanese X300 which shipped by default with VISTA Business. Lenovo Japan were also kind enough to include a set of recovery media for both VISTA Business and XP Professional, as well as have the on-board rescue and recovery partition (around 4.5 gig).
Originally, I deleted VISTA and installed XP via the recovery media provided. During the install process, I could not see a way to customise the install (I like my OS etc to be as light as possible - no bloatware etc)
From what I have read, it appears to be impossible to do a clean install of XP with what they have provided. Can anyone confirm? I wouldn't mind doing a clean install using another XP Pro CD, but am worried about the SDD drive controller drivers, as well as the special version diskeeper software (I remember reading these have been designed to work together to spread reads/writes more evenly across the drive).
Thanks,