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ekdya · #1 Post by **ekdya** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:03 pm

Hi
I just purchased A31 thinkpad from ebay with windowsXP striker in the
back, it came in and after turning it on, it displayed some text
about FreeDOS Project

Kernel compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - FAT32 support
(c) Copyright 1995-2004 Pasquale J. Villani and The FreeDOS Project.

and the last 3 lines say;

FreeCom version 0.82 pl 3k XMS_Swap [Mar 30 2004 01:03:43]
Current date is Mon 04-02-2007
Enter new date (mm-dd-[cc]yy):_

I expected to see windows XP fire up,

could some one please help.

thanks

#2 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:08 pm

Sounds like you got some kind of Linux distro

that's not working.

ekdya · #3 Post by **ekdya** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:17 pm

my other A31 thinkpad has window 2000 in a partition on the sam HD, do I expect the same with the one I just purchased? or the seller should have sent a separate windowsXP cd?
I also have a linux desktop but I got this thinkpad for my kids and they want to use widnows "for now".

proaudioguy · #4 Post by **proaudioguy** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:32 am

Do you have a COA for XP?

Send me your hard drive, and list the options, CDRW/ DVD, etc and I'll restore your drive.

I don't need your COA.

Or you can still buy XP recovery disks.

ekdya · #5 Post by **ekdya** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:46 am

I have windows 2000 cd, I guess I can install that, right? the back of my thinkpad there is windowXP sticker. the seller did not send me a XP CD.

JHEM · #6 Post by **JHEM** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:08 am

ekdya wrote:my other A31 thinkpad has window 2000 in a partition on the sam HD, do I expect the same with the one I just purchased?

Yes, you should see a prompt to press the blue Access IBM button when starting the unit.

ekdya wrote:or the seller should have sent a separate windowsXP cd?

Without knowing what the seller promised to send with the unit in their eBay offering it's impossible to answer that question.

ekdya wrote:I also have a linux desktop but I got this thinkpad for my kids and they want to use widnows "for now".

The A31 recovery CDs are still available from Lenovo or you could ask someone here to make you copies.

Please update your profile with your location. For all we know you could live around the corner from another Forum member who could hand you a set of recovery CDs.

James

proaudioguy · #7 Post by **proaudioguy** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:04 pm

If smeone would host the space I could upload disk images.

ekdya · #8 Post by **ekdya** » Thu May 03, 2007 4:25 pm

[quote="proaudioguy"]If smeone would host the space I could upload disk images.[/quote]

many thanks for your offer. no need to do that any more, I got on Lenovo and was able to download/install the drivers, and am going to finish off with their System Update 2.0 just to make sure I did not foreget something behind.
right now I am getting XP servcie pack 2 then will do the rest.

thanks guys, you are a great help.

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