I recently did the same on my T23 and everything went quite smoothly. The T23 seems to like XP and it boots and shuts down much faster than my 2000pro install ever did. All I had to do was download and re-install the ThinkPad utilities that I wanted (power management...). One thing you may loose is your DVD player software which is easy to replace but good to be aware of. I did my xp install several months ago and it has been quite stable. First I did a disk image of my hard drive to another hard drive so I could recover the old install (which is a good idea) but I didn't need to use it. Once you finish the clean install and update XP and install some of your applications, you could burn a disk image (I use Acronis True Image software) to CD that could become your system restore disks. I did this and update them occasionally so I can restore instead of rebuild my system if needed.
Good luck
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Good day!
I have a T23 with a 48-gig hard drive amd a PIII. It's been running
Win2kPro since I bought it new.
I'm replacing my desktop machine with a new Dell and it comes with
Windows XP Professional installed.
I happen to own a fresh copy of Win XP Pro (I won it in a raffle at
MS!), never used it.
I'd like to have my two computers running the same OS.
I can transfer the files off the laptop that I need to save.
What's involved?
Should I just install XP over Win2k on the laptop?
Clean install? Won't that kill off the "hidden" files IBM has on the
hard drive?
Am I facing more trouble than I want?
Suggestions?
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