Thinkpad T23 Recovery CD

[spalog]

Allright, before you guys jump all over me, hear me out...

Bought a secondhand T23 from Tiger Direct, seemed sweet for the price I paid. Worked for awhile, then decided to slowly eat both the windows and the recovery partion. Got a new HDD (Seagate) and now I need to reinstall, but I don't want to track down all the crazy drivers and such, IBM wants $280 to reflash the new HDD, so you know where I'm at.

Anyone, please, I need the recovery CD for an IBM T23, please!!!!

Thanks.

[skygodtj]

Dont bother with the recovery CD. FDisk and format the drive as you want it(multiple partitions if you like). Install your favorite flavor of Winblows, then go to the IBM website and d/l the Access Support files.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... R-57669#PA

It'll find the drivers for your model and install them. Yeah, a BigBlue CD is nice, but you dont need it. And it build things the way IBM thinks they should be, not the customer.

[tfflivemb2]

Yeah, the software installer does a great job of sorting out what you need and what you don't. Win XP will recognize most of what you need to get it up and running, so that you can get to the point of downloading Software Installer.

[spalog]

Well this is just great, now the thing won't even connect to my Cable Modem, nor the combo of my cable modem through the router. I can ping the router and the modem, but no internet. I'm using the cable modem now with my standard desktop, but the T23 won't work at all. I got a fresh install of Win 2K, but what else can I try? Thanks.

[carbon_unit]

PM sent.

[BruisedQuasar]

If you simply reinstall W2K from a Win 2000 disk, can you install your wifi driver and connect to Internet so you can download the IBM drivers?

Also, will any version of Windows 2000 Pro work? If you have, for instance, installed one or more of the Win 2000 Pro service packs, will a pre-SP3 version of 2000 still install, or will it refuse as XP pre-SP2 will not install on a HDD running XP with SP2 installed on it?