Please need help with Thinkpad A20p

[Lest007]

Hi guys someone gave me an IBM Thinkpad A20p because he didn't wanted and is very slow and have useless stuffs i kinda wanted to do a factory recovery but i don't have a restore CD by any chance is there any possible way to do a recovery to my laptop without a CD i have been looking to the options when the laptop starts but none say about restore to it's original mode if anyone knows please let me know thank you very much.

[RealBlackStuff]

That machine came out originally with either W98-SE or W2K (and some even with Linux).
With its slow CPU (550, 600 or max. 700MHz) and max. 512MB (expensive PC100) RAM it's not really a candidate for XP or newer.
Look for a small Linux distro to make the most of it.

[Lest007]

it has windows xp installed on it so i was wondering if at least i could just find a way to just recovery to it's original form that came from factory even if it's not windows xp

[ajkula66]

Posting a little more info on your machine, such as 7-character model number from the bottom (probably 2629-???) as well as the current system info (CPU speed, amount of RAM etc) would help us help you tweak the machine better.

Also, you may want to post a WTB (want to buy) ad for recovery disks in the forum's Marketplace.

Good luck.