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TP 760XD - Installing Windows 2000 Beta 3 onto a blank hard drive

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ThinkPad 760XD Windows 2000 Beta 3 blank hard drive install instructions

You will need the following items to complete this procedure:

TP 760XD BIOS	Click here
ThinkPad 760XD DOS CD-ROM Drivers	Click here
ThinkPad 760XD Utility Features for Windows 2000 Beta 3	Click here

When the install of utilities or Windows 2000 components request the restart, always cold boot the machine, The lack of video on warm boots is currently under investigation.

1. Flash the ThinkPad's BIOS to the most current level available on the IBM Support Web page.
2. Boot the ThinkPad with a bootable diskette which contains the appropriate DOS based CD-ROM drivers.
3. Or, insert the Windows 2000 Beta 3 CD and boot from the CD. These instructions are written from the perspective of step #2.
4. Create and format a 2 Gig FAT 16 partition.
5. The addition of a DOS SMARTDRV utility will speed up the file copy process greatly.
6. Run WINNT from the i386 subdirectory on the Beta 3 CD.
7. Press Enter to continue if WinNT finds it's own subdirectory
8. Please wait until all the files are copied to the hard drive.
9. After the file copy process has ended, press Enter to reboot the machine after removing the floppy disk.
10. Press Enter to confirm the Beta Version Installation.
11. Press Enter to continue the setup process
12. Press F8 to accept the End User License Agreement (EULA)
13. The NT Fdisk screen appears. Make sure that C: FAT is highlighted and press Enter to continue the setup process.
14. Next select the File System to be installed. The FAT file system installation is preferred since the drive can be converted at a later date. Press Enter to accept the current file system.
15. Setup will examine the disks (run scandisk) and start the file copy process to the appropriate Windows 2000 installation subdirectories.
16. Setup will reboot the machine.
17. The Windows 2000 GUI loads after boot.ini loads. The Windows 2000 setup wizard launches.
18. The boot process will launch quicker if the floppy drive is left attached to the machine.
19. Click Next to continue the setup process.
20. The Installing Devices screen appears.
21. The hardware devices will be installed at this step; this step will take several minutes.
22. Click Next at Regional settings if you want the US keyboard, or change as required. These install instructions were written with US keyboard selected.
23. Enter your Name and Organization, and click Next.
24. Enter the computer name and Administrator password, click Next to continue.
25. Enter Modem dialing information if prompted.
26. Adjust time and date if required then click Next to continue.
27. The windows networking components are installed.
28. Installing more components, more file copy.
29. Setup is completing its final set of tasks, the start menu items, registry components, savings the configuration settings and deletes any temporary files.
30. Click Finish when the competing Windows 2000 setup wizard appears.
31. The system will shutdown and reboot. Cold Boot will be required.

ThinkPad Configuration Installation

1. Insert the ThinkPad utility diskette 1 into the floppy drive and click Start, Run.
2. Type A:\SETUP on the Run command line, and press Enter.
3. Click Next at the Welcome screen..
4. Click Next to accept the default subdirectory for the ThinkPad utilities.
5. Click Custom install method and click Next to continue.
6. Remove the check mark by Personalization Editor and click Next.
7. Click Next to accept the default ThinkPad group.
8. ThinkPad utility file copy process begins.
9. Remove and insert the required diskettes as prompted. The diskette insertion prompt will ask for the Win98 diskettes, use the Windows 2000 diskettes.
10. The utility data diskette is machine specific, please use the correct one.
11. ThinkPad utility install will complete and ask to restart the machine, select No, I will restart later. Then click Finish, and then remove the data diskette.
12. Close ThinkPad configuration, shutdown and restart the machine.

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	Document Category	Windows 2000 Beta
	Date Created	29-04-99
	Last Updated	11-05-99
	Revision Date	12-05-2000
	Brand	IBM ThinkPad
	Product Family	ThinkPad 760XD
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