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IBM Thinkpad

by tadlaoui33 Nov 10, 2009 4:27AM PST

Hi
a freind an IBM thinkpad, had XP as an original OS, and reinstalled Vista, it stops running immediately after a while, I opened it up I cleaned the CPU, the fan and the heatsink, cos I thought it's a heating problem, but it's still the same problem, when I boot from CD it's fine, only vista cd that it boots from, dosen't boot from win 7 recovery disc, or Linuxm I pluged the hard drive into anoter laptop as external hard drive, I managed to read it, I copied the data, I formated it, and installed vista, it dosen't start and a message comes up, saying that windows can't finish installation, and it stops, and the screen go blank, in some ocasions it stops even before starting windows..
any help?

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"dosen't boot from win 7 recovery disc, or Linuxm

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 10, 2009 7:37AM PST

That's a clue about aging CD/DVD drives or we left some USB or PC-Card plugged in. I can't tell which from your post but try it without the USB or PC-cards plugged in.

As CD/DVD drives age you find they can't boot. You can imagine the money made off consumers that take it in, decline the new drive, take it some where else, etc.

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