In message <412F7D7B.2010905@theriver.com>, Ray Bayles writes:
>No. When I asked IBM that question on various machines and OS, they have
>always told me they would only sell me the recovery disk for OS of
>record on the machine in question. It is a Microsoft issue, not an IBM one.
This leads me to a question.
I have a ThinkPad with XP Home and Pro. I bought it from IBM with Home,
but they sent me the wrong recovery CD, and I bought an XP Pro license.
Today, I picked up XP Pro for another system - and got a disk with SP2 on
it.
Can I load my ThinkPad from that disk? If I just use the IBM restore
CD, my ThinkPad will come up with XP (no service packs) and lots of extra
cruft, most of which I will then have to struggle to uninstall (such as,
say, IBM's DLA, which annoys me, and which refuses to stop notifying me
that I could, if I wanted, reenable it). If I use the Windows disk, I
can presumably "authorize" it or whatever using the product key I got with
my older copy of XP... Or can I? If I can, then I can download drivers from
IBM's site, get all the hardware support in, and Be Happy. This would be
really neat, but I'm not sure whether it'll work.
-s
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