Clean Install with Recovery CDs?

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treker · #1 Post by **treker** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:16 pm

I know you can make ONE Recovery set of CDs. Can you make just a CLEAN XP install - no IBM hidden partions or anything else - using these CDs?

Leon · #2 Post by **Leon** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:10 pm

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=3827

treker · #3 Post by **treker** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:05 pm

Man, that is alot of steps. Why couldn't IBM just ship a XP disk with their systems? We paid for XP. It couldn't cost that much more to include an installable disk. Even Dell does that!

pdudas · #4 Post by **pdudas** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:33 pm

Do a full recovery from the Cd set, then kill the service partiton and the Drivers,Ibmshare,Ibmtools folders on your system partition.

You'll get a fully configured clean Xp install.

Kenn · #5 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:06 pm

It's pretty easy to make your own bootable XP CD since everything you need is in the i386 directory that ships on your computer. Using BCD sounds like a lot of steps, but once you have it set up, you can burn as many CDs as you need.

Clean Install with Recovery CDs?

Clean Install with Recovery CDs?

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