New Hard Drive, no recovery disks

[dwilsonfl]

Bought the parts for an x60s from fellow forum members. Finally worked through some glitches and it's alive. Running Ubuntu, that is. That's not going to work for me long term.

Have a COA but no disks to reinstall XP pro. IN the past I have just used some Dell recovery disks I have but this time I get a blue screen once setup gets ready to write to the HD.

Any chance anyone has copies of the disks, or an iso of them? Not seeing any on eBay and I'm doing all this on the cheap.

Thanks,

David

[Harryc]

Ref the Dell disks and the BSOD, try going into BIOS and setting the SATA controller to compatibility mode.

[dwilsonfl]

Well I'll be. Looks like that works Harry. Do I reset the comparability once XP is installed or just leave it that way?

Thanks so much

[Harryc]

You can set it back to AHCI after the XP install is done, but you need to install the Intel Matrix Storage driver from Lenovo first before booting up in that mode or else you will get the BSOD again.

[KRAZY KEV]

i know that torrent and p2p sites are frowned upon but you will most likely find an ISO image of the correct windows disc on one of the popular sites. whatever you do make sure that you run a virus scan before burning the image and also of the disc once you have burnt it. i have done this on various computers in the past with no problems. the computers have also used the original COA keycode with no problem and passed the windows WGA (windows genuine advantage) test
if you decide to download from a torrent site read the details carefully to make sure you are not getting a version in the wrong language

[pianowizard]

dwilsonfl, I have an ISO file of an XP OEM disc, which works with any XP COA key. Send me a PM if you want this.

[ozzymud]

If you get an iso from the net at large, you would be wise todo as KRAZY KEV said and extract it to a folder(winrar, 7zip) and virus scan it 1st... most found on the net are not virgin, some are nice(all current hotfixes, nlited with drivers), otoh, some are pretty dubious (LastXP if not from source comes to mind, the one easily found out there has a few "extra" unwanted things slipped in)

So to be sure (and not violate DMCA), snag a copy of the pressed CD from somewhere

My backups from pressed CD:

Windows XP Home (SP2) OEM.ISO = 556 MB (584,026,112 bytes)
Windows XP Professional (SP3) OEM.iso = 589 MB (617,754,624 bytes)

All others i have are from downloads, so morally... i OWN home and pro, legally, i am prolly not allowed to download the others

[pianowizard]

So to be sure (and not violate DMCA), snag a copy of the pressed CD from somewhere

I made my Win XP SP2 ISO from a legitimate Microsoft CD.

[Phix28]

Hi! I also need Recovery discs for my T40 as I could no longer obtain Windows XP (any variants including the IBM Recovery Disc) at my place. Like TS, I also ran Linux (Ubuntu). But I still need Windows to use some applications. I was thinking about dual-booting (Win XP & Fedora/OpenSUSE) with the recovery partition left intact, is this possible? I got Access IBM wiped out every time I performed this operation whether Predesktop Area was set to Normal, Secure or Disabled as Linux couldn't see the partition! Any advice or experience about dual-boot, your help gratefully appreciated.