Hello!
First off I'm brand new to this site so my apologies if I'm breaking some rule or ought to post this elsewhere.
I recently purchased a very nice 760XL, however, I've realised that at some point in its life it was re-imaged with a retail Windows 95 build and thus contains no IBM provided drivers. Does anyone know where I might be able to obtain an image of the original recovery cd? It appears I can find at least some of the drivers online, but I'd prefer to start from scratch as the currently installed system loads with several OS errors at launch.
I also know these laptops cannot boot from their CD drive. What is the best way for me to reinstall the OS? External floppy? PCMCIA card? I work in IT but this is just before my time/experience.
Additionally, my goal (if possible) is to eventually install OS/2 Warp 4. Is this viable/has anyone done this on this series? (I have 64mb of RAM, 2gb HDD)
Thanks in advance!
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Thinkpad 760XL recovery disc/drivers
Re: Thinkpad 760XL recovery disc/drivers
Click on the Drivers link at the top of the page and scroll down to your model and click on that..... Presto! Instant drivers for your model!
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Re: Thinkpad 760XL recovery disc/drivers
Thanks Dave!
I believe I've found recovery media listed there, it appears I need to boot from the floppy boot image first, which will then allow me to access the CD recovery image? Is this correct/do you have any knowledge on this?
My model has an internal CD drive but no floppy, so I assume I need to find a compatible external FDD to use this.
Thanks again!
I believe I've found recovery media listed there, it appears I need to boot from the floppy boot image first, which will then allow me to access the CD recovery image? Is this correct/do you have any knowledge on this?
My model has an internal CD drive but no floppy, so I assume I need to find a compatible external FDD to use this.
Thanks again!
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