Re: [Thinkpad] IBM R40

For best results, fdisk and clear the drive of all partitions. Leave it
blank with no formatting.

Boot to the first recovery cd and follow the process.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Sauer" <hsauer@henning-sauer.de>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] IBM R40

> Hello,
>
> I bought a new 60 GB HD to replace the 30 GB HD in my IBM Thinkpad R40
> 2722-3GG.
> Now I want to install Windows XP on the new harddisk via the four
> Recovery CD's that I received from IBM.
> Will these Recovery CD's create a HPA partition on the harddrive ?
> Do I need to partition the drive for this or should the drive contain to
> partitions ?
> I tried it boths ways (I partioned the drive with fdisk from Knoppix
> 3.5) and both times I don't get a working Windows XP Installation!
> After I installed from the CD's and I restart and go to restore from
> factory defaults I get the following message after some time "Error
> #1802 Image File is invalid or corrupted". The installtion continues
> after a reboot, but it doesn't result in a working Windows XP
> installation.
> Can anyone give me a hint on what I need to do to get a Working XP
> installation on my new harddrive with the Recovery CD's ?
>
> Bye,
> Henning
>
> --
> Henning Sauer <hsauer@henning-sauer.de>
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