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As soon as I finish downloading Microsoft Office Ultimate (which I bought for $60 - you need a .edu email address to qualify), I am going to shut down my Thinkpad, remove the hard drive, and install the new hard drive I bought earlier. Then I will put the nlited DVD of Windows XP SP3 (using the original Windows license that came with the Thinkpad) in the drive and hopefully boot to the install screen. If all goes well, I’ll have a clean install on a clean hard drive. I’ve already backed up my data and also have an external USB case for the old hard drive handy.

Gulp. Here goes. I’ll be twittering updates if anyone is curious to follow the progress.

Tags: hard drive, Thinkpad, Windows XP

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Posted Friday, May 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pm by fledgling otaku. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Categories: Geek service. Tags: hard drive • Thinkpad • Windows XP.

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