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fengler

fengler

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I bought a thinkstation d30 with an nvidia k2000, but it has win8 which i hate. Can someone help me install win7 (i have a key) and dual boot OSX?
 
Can't help I know almost nothing about computers but I know I hate Win8 myself. Thinking about another computer with Win7 before their gone. Just can't find seem to find one that will take a 3 1/2" disc. Gave up on finding one with that takes a 5 1/4" disc.
 
Living in the Past said:
Can't help I know almost nothing about computers but I know I hate Win8 myself. Thinking about another computer with Win7 before their gone. Just can't find seem to find one that will take a 3 1/2" disc. Gave up on finding one with that takes a 5 1/4" disc.
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:lol: username is relevant
 
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re_guderian said:
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And that's only the 3 1/2", how many remember the 5 1/4"? My first computer operated on MS-DOS and wasn't large enough to operate Windows 3.1. I was able to remotely control a few building EMS from my home with it. Once things moved on from MS-DOS Trane used OS2 which was proprietary, operating from home ended. Funny how a advancement moved some things back for many years.
 
Just noticed the label is put on upside down on the disk. The colored band wrapped around the top so you could color-code your disks and find then quickly in a box. Back when you could back up your HDD on a box or two of 1.44 MB disks.

Yeah, I still have a few boxes of both sizes. Learned on DOS as well before Windows came out. My first job out of college had some OS/2 machines running some equipment. OS/2 Warp, I think?
 
Cassettes, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy, Zip Drives, Jaz Drives, SCSI 1,2,3 (don't forget the super sexy Ultra SCSI 3 Hot swappable :eek: )... oh how I (don't) miss thee. Give me a SATA 3 4TB external drive any day.

As for the original question in the post. As long as you can get the drivers... no problemo. According to IB (er, Lenovo :rolleyes:) they shipped this system with Win7, so should be easy. Although Win7 should automatically find most of the drivers on it's own. Medtro's link should help.
 
I must be the only person in the world that doesn't hate Win8, so I"m not entirely sure why you'd want to replace it unless you just don't like change...it actually uses fewer resources and can run faster and leaner than Win7. of course I'm also not sure why anyone would ever want to install OSX on a perfectly good PC (I"m not a fan of the fruity computer). I know it can be done, but if you want both a windows and OSX environment it's much easier to start off with a Mac and run parallels or dual boot that system with windows.

Win7 install is easy, especially since you have a key. do you have the installation media to match the key? or is that where you need help? If you have the bootable media for Win7 and have anything you want to save from the IBM on separate storage, the Win7 install will walk you through wiping away Win8, setting up your partitions, and installing the OS. You will likely need to find drivers after the install, but IBM/Lenovo's site should have all that you'll need and nVidia will have what you need for your graphics card.
 
Win 8.1 is a ton better after I updated it from 8. I doubt I'll install Osx now.
 
Living in the Past said:
And that's only the 3 1/2", how many remember the 5 1/4"? My first computer operated on MS-DOS and wasn't large enough to operate Windows 3.1. I was able to remotely control a few building EMS from my home with it. Once things moved on from MS-DOS Trane used OS2 which was proprietary, operating from home ended. Funny how a advancement moved some things back for many years.
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My first computer was a 386dx :cool:
 
BrotherRob said:
Surely you remember the cassette storage.
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I hate to admit it but I do. Never had any personally but Trane was field testing a new type of compressor at a racket club in Scottsdale that recorded data with cassettes. We also installed buck boost transformers to boost the 208 volt three phase to 230 volt three phase. I told them my house already had 230 volt three phase. Install and play the power bill and I would have been happy.:rolleyes:

re_guderian said:
Just noticed the label is put on upside down on the disk. The colored band wrapped around the top so you could color-code your disks and find then quickly in a box. Back when you could back up your HDD on a box or two of 1.44 MB disks.

Yeah, I still have a few boxes of both sizes. Learned on DOS as well before Windows came out. My first job out of college had some OS/2 machines running some equipment. OS/2 Warp, I think?
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No 5 1/4 disks around anymore. Wife has a few boxes of 3 1/2 disks with old business programs. I personally just want to keep something with a CD drive incase I ever find the CD with my old pictures. They may be on a old laptop with XP. Wife tried forcing it closed with a pencil on the keyboard and broke a hinge. Bought new hinges for it. Wife told she had loaded all the pictures on thumb drive before starting. Guess I screwed something up on the side the hinge broke. Pretty sure has to do with turning it off when you close it. It wouldn't power up now and can't locate the original CD that has these pictures from previous computer which is long gone.:bang: Probably need to take my old HP laptop to someplace like Best Buy and see if they can fix it or at least recover everything on the hard drive.:meh:


Wife has always had more interest in Computers. First one may have been a 386SX does that sound right?
 
I still have my first computer - 1983 Commodore VIC-20

I can't begin to estimate how many years of my life have been wasted by computers - but I guess it keeps me off the streets at night! :D
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