This poor thing, just got a Thinkpad 600x from my dad ( @yestergearpc ) and this thing is trying so hard to do what it needs to, but it hasn't been turned on in 20 years so it's struggling very hard #VintageTech #ibm #ibmpc #vintagepc
Don't mind the bad quality, but this makes me understand why the laptop was lagging so so much. We're gonna have to wipe it and put windows 2k on it instead
Okay so we may not be doing 2k, were putting in a new hardrive. It all depends on how things go
So, uh. I went way to big for the hard drive. The max is 8 gigs; I went for 64.. so we may have to go back to the other hardrive :/
Wait it may work, we'll wait and see
Nope, we gotta put the old hardrive back in
Aaand the CD/DVD drive isn't working, so we can't even install 2k, this poor 600
Gonna try to figure out why it isn't working
Yep, the lasers aren't working @yestergearpc tried to look for a new CD drive but the one he found is the exact opposite of what we need.. this is depressing LMAO
So we have to get a new CD/DVD drive, how fun :|
Alternatively.. we could try to find an 18-20 gig hardrive which would work(that is what we are trying to do now)
Alright we're seeing if it boots now
@PumpkinsLinked @yestergearpc oh, it has the BEST thinkpad keyboard, the overlord of all laptop keyboards ever engineered <3.
(apart from how bad it gets when you break the hooks of the keys)
@PumpkinsLinked so many plot twists.
@RetroFunPL Indeed, so much is happening with this. Way to many errors
@PumpkinsLinked understood! Engineering is always like this 🙈
when it comes to hard drive sizes, i also wonder if the OS wasn't able to get past BIOS limits as it boots, but some voices in my head tell me it's probably more true for Linux, and the others that meddling with how Windows boots is not impossible but not the easy way either 🙈
@RetroFunPL Yeahhh, that's completely true from my knowledge lmaoo
@RetroFunPL @PumpkinsLinked Basically, I tried to toss in a 64gb IDE SSD I had laying around, and I think the BIOS limits to around 32gb. The DVD Slimbay drive is shot, so ordered a new one, but for now I'm going to image the original 6gb drive over to a 32 (or maybe 20gb) and expand the partition. The machine had XP SP3, and only had like 300 megs free with nothing else installed lol.
@RetroFunPL @PumpkinsLinked Turns out 64GB is just fine! Imaged it over to a 64, and it boots right up. It's all happy now.
@yestergearpc @RetroFunPL Yes, I am very happy about this >:]
Oh no, this poor thing