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Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Just making sure I can do this
If I pick up an ebay Thinkpad, sans OS and HD, but with COA sticker, I'll need to buy a HD/SSD, drop it in the caddy, drop the whole thing in, call up Lenovo, order recovery CDs and put that in and I'm done?
Thanks!
If I pick up an ebay Thinkpad, sans OS and HD, but with COA sticker, I'll need to buy a HD/SSD, drop it in the caddy, drop the whole thing in, call up Lenovo, order recovery CDs and put that in and I'm done?
Thanks!
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Depending on how old your 'new' Thinkpad will be, Lenovo might not sell any more Recovery CDs for your wanted model.
But put an ad in the Marketplace Forum (WTB = want to buy), specifying for what model and what OS.
Using official recovery CDs (or copies thereof) you don't need the COA of the laptop, those CDs have a built-in volume license.
But put an ad in the Marketplace Forum (WTB = want to buy), specifying for what model and what OS.
Using official recovery CDs (or copies thereof) you don't need the COA of the laptop, those CDs have a built-in volume license.
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Or, if you can borrow an OEM (OEM only, not retail, VL, etc.) XP disc, you can install a plain vanilla OS using the license key on the bottom. But, you will have to activate the OEM with Microsoft, and you don't have to with Recovery discs.
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Thanks
I'm considering an X61 of some sort
I'm considering an X61 of some sort
Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Have you seen this? http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=94938
It's a pretty good deal considering the recent upgrades/new battery, etc. and seller's drop in original asking price
It's a pretty good deal considering the recent upgrades/new battery, etc. and seller's drop in original asking price
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
A Microsoft VLK licence requires that a genuine Microsoft COA with a unique key is attached to the device to be legalRealBlackStuff wrote:Using official recovery CDs (or copies thereof) you don't need the COA of the laptop, those CDs have a built-in volume license.
Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Yes but I think his point was that you don't need to enter the key with a recovery disk.bill bolton wrote: A Microsoft VLK licence requires that a genuine Microsoft COA with a unique key is attached to the device to be legal
And technically it isn't a VLK but a pre-activated OEM key (still legally requires a CoA sticker).
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
There is no such thing as a pre-activated OEM key. The factory image key used by Lenovo is a VLK associated with a SLIC (System Licensed Internal Code) in the BIOS...... all systems from the factory have the same key.jdrou wrote:And technically it isn't a VLK but a pre-activated OEM key (still legally requires a CoA sticker).
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
Yes all systems from the same vendor use the same key but it is still an OEM key; if you extract the key from a pre-installed XP system (using keyfinder etc.) you can use that key to install from a generic OEM CD. Volume license keys do not work on OEM CDs or vice versa.
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
The target Thinkpad was nominated as an x61, which implies Vista. What you describe is simply wrong for Vista and Win 7.jdrou wrote:pre-installed XP system
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Re: Buying an ebay Thinkpad without HD but has COA: procedures?
My X61 CTO came with XP but yes Vista/7 use a somewhat different system. I'm fairly certain that Vista/7 OEM SLP keys are still not volume license keys even though just like the XP OEM SLP keys they are used across all systems from the same vendor.bill bolton wrote: The target Thinkpad was nominated as an x61, which implies Vista. What you describe is simply wrong for Vista and Win 7.
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X31, X40, X61T, X61, X201, X220 (i7 IPS), W520 (FHD), T440p (FHD),
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X31, X40, X61T, X61, X201, X220 (i7 IPS), W520 (FHD), T440p (FHD),
T480 (QHD)
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