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Thread ID: 9332	2001-05-20 22:56:00	Setting up an IBM ThinkPad 755CX	Guest (0)	Press F1

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12923	2001-05-20 22:56:00	A friend has been given a ThinkPad 755CX without its Dock. It has been used by a corporate using 95 and has a lot of unnecessary stuff on it which we would like to dump. He has access to a CDROM drive that connects to the parallel port. Does anyone know how I can reformat the hard drive and re-load 95 using the parallel port CDROM?	Guest (0)
12924	2001-05-21 01:16:00	You should be able to get a recovery CD from IBM or it should have one with it! Which will have the OS on the system It is not an easy option to just reformat the drive and put on an os as you need IBM drivers for different IBM Laptops That what I think anyway Good Luck	Guest (0)
12925	2001-05-27 02:52:00	Its easy!! Goto ibm.com & goto drivers/support and search via thinkpad and model number. If it asks for a specific part number such as; 2634-5AA this is located on bottom of machine next to the serial no. You can get all drivers from their ... BUT i dont know how you get the cd-rom working though u need 2 goto that btand's www and get drivers hopefully they have dos drivers ... or u could copy the drivers onto a disk or so .. by looking at its cd-rom driver details under system properties. You can load win95 via floppies or via a lpt zip disk like the win95 directory is only 50MB anyway.	Guest (0)
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