6 recovery disks for T42

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Cholly · #1 Post by **Cholly** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:50 am

I got a refurb T42 from Eritech, and it didn't succeed on its initial boot -- sorta froze and said could not authenticate its copy of Windows.

Eritech sent me the recovery CDs -- SIX of them -- but blundering around I only got through 2 before I got the system working okay as far as I can tell. I've since installed my programs and data.

So what's on disks 4, 5, and 6 ?

How can I get the benefit of them without restarting recovery and undoing all of my installation work?

mucho thanks for any tips!

Carlos

northernspy1 @ aol.com

thinhare · #2 Post by **thinhare** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:52 pm

Curious why you got only 6, for me, I got 8 from IBM service, 1 for boot up, the others for system recovery.

Cholly · #3 Post by **Cholly** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:30 pm

thinhare wrote:Curious why you got only 6, for me, I got 8 from IBM service, 1 for boot up, the others for system recovery.

My machine is a T42, but it's also a refurb, and the discs are not directly from IBM.

But this still leaves the question of what's on the disks, or whether it's possible once the machine is running to add all the ones not related to XP.

What's weirder is my machine seems to be running okay -- even has various IBM utilities. Are there applications that ordinarily come with the T42?

- Charles

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:06 pm

You need all the disks. The time that two was "enough" for a restore for me occurred with a bad set of CD's. IBM replaced them. Any recovery I have done (from A22e forward) that was correct used all the CD's provided (varies with model, and generally newer models use more CD's). ... JDH

Cholly · #5 Post by **Cholly** » Thu May 05, 2005 12:40 am

jdhurst wrote:Any recovery I have done (from A22e forward) that was correct used all the CD's provided (varies with model, and generally newer models use more CD's). ... JDH

I'm not arguing with you -- but I can't see anything that's wrong with my T42. Possibly some very valuable (but also unnecessary) applications weren't loaded, but Windows XP is operating perfectly, the various Thinkpad utilities seem to be all there and working, etc.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I have no idea what it might be. Since I didn't use 4 of the 6 CDs, you'd think it would be a lot.

- Charles

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:14 am

The way recovery works is that it uses the CD's to build the PreDesktop Area, and then uses the PreDesktop Area to recover. It is possible that you recovered from the PreDesktop Area and the CD's weren't used at all. I doubt that you can get a good recovery on a blank disk with only some of the CD's. ... JDH

egibbs · #7 Post by **egibbs** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:08 am

Just out of curiosity - why not pop over to http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howt ... fault.mspx and see if that is a legal or pirate copy of WinDohs. I'd be interested to see what you find out.

Ed Gibbs

Cholly · #8 Post by **Cholly** » Fri May 06, 2005 2:56 am

egibbs wrote:Just out of curiosity - why not pop over to http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howt ... fault.mspx and see if that is a legal or pirate copy of WinDohs. I'd be interested to see what you find out.
Ed Gibbs

I was too lazy to get the machine into a bright light so I could read the serial number, but I used Microsoft's "alternate method" and got the message:

Thank you for running the Windows Validation Assistant. It appears that your Windows Product Key is valid.

This is a strong indicator that your operating system is genuine, however the Windows Validation Assistant cannot make a final determination

- Charles

6 recovery disks for T42

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