T61: How to make a bootable XP Pro CD for clean install

Holy crap, I made one already. Follow the steps one by one on the link and you'll create one for yourself that you can use for clean install of XP Pro. The only difference is that you need to insert an emply CD before the "Write" button becomes available so that you can actually press it

http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml

I had only the recovery CDs, which I will throw away most likely.

Now the sequence of installing the drivers you can find on here as well. I'll make my clean XP installation soon, so I'll update later.

 

Great find!

 

OK, this took me a whole day but at the end I got it: you must install the OS fixxes that are in your SWTOOLS folder after the installation of Windows by this method, or your already installed windows will not run. It will, but in safe mode only.

So I found 8 os fixxes in my folder, and installed all of those while in safe mode (all are small .exe files). I also installed all of the drivers while in safe mode but one - the finger pring driver bacause it can't be installed in safe mode, so then I did those 8 fixxes .. and boom, works like a champ )

I'll update with how many processes I end up. So far those are 33

 

yesterday I installed the rest of the updates from C:\SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\WXPUP - about 18 in that folder, and ran windows update over the internet - it found another 86 updates or so, lol, all installed.

I installed firewall, antivirus, and antispyware, and have ~43 processes (vs. ~55 before the clean install and with removed as much of the thinkvantage software as possible)

commit charge is usualy below 300MB

I used drivers that I downloaded from the lenovos website, which include:

Audio - UAA_HD driver, and SoundMax driver
Bios - not needed, but I ran that one for the bios upgrade
Bluetooth - MS bluetooth driver, and Enhanced Data Rate driver
HDD - Intel Matrix Storage driver, and Active Protection driver
Modem
LAN - install the driver, and the utility after that
Power - ACPI driver
Wireless - install the driver, and the utility after that
SD Storage - I think this comes with the XP, but I installed it anyways (not sure what it does)
ThinkVantage - fingerprint driver, trusted platform module driver, USB wireless driver
Mouse - ultranav driver, and the utility after that
Utilities - Easy Eject driver, Hotkey driver
video - nVidia driver, monitor driver (updates the plug and play monitor driver in device manager)
windows - intel chipset support, and update module q909667

all those you can find in the lenovos website, under the categories that I wrote here. I cant specify the order of the installation since I ended up installing some of those twice afte I turner the HDD mode in bios back to ACHI (or whatever is called). But there are other posts on here that specify the correct order.

after the first windows installation (when it didn't run but in safe mode only), I ended up with 9 unknow devices, so those that had a setup.exe file installed themselves easy, and those that didn't have that file I installed by going into the device manager and right-clicking on them -> properties and showed the location.

last thing -> I did format the whole HDD, so I have only one partition.