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Thinkpad 760XL recovery disc/drivers

#1 Post by Bartleby » Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:12 pm

Hello! :mrgreen:

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! :D

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Re: Thinkpad 760XL recovery disc/drivers

#2 Post by olex126 » Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:42 pm

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

#3 Post by Bartleby » Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:57 pm

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!

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Re: Thinkpad 760XL recovery disc/drivers

#4 Post by Cdog6958 » Sun Jul 31, 2022 2:29 pm

olex126 wrote:
Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:42 pm
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!

Regards.

Dave
I'm not seeing any audio or video drivers for the 760xd in the drivers link.

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