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Windows 7 Ultimate is installed & activated! No silly cracks needed (for future ref: it's the ISO burnt to the green USB stick).
So pleased I don't have to piss about with the stupid loaders…
Weirdness on this (utterly wrecked) spares T410: trackpad works, but none of the mouse buttons do. PLUG A MOUSE IN!!
Drivers…
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Driverpack Solutions is quite annoying sometimes, what with trying to shoehorn in loads of bloatware, but it does work. It gets the WiFi working, and seems to have got at least a couple of the trackpad buttons working, along with two-finger scrolling!
Memory Map next. This is the big one; the whole reason I'm doing this…
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It's not a quick process, but MM is up & running! All tracks & routes are in and GPS connectivity is working.
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The real test?
Trying this ‘finished’ harddrive in another T410.
It should work perfectly, theoretically…
…and it does indeed work!
(There's some shit in Device Manager about PCI\USB stuff, but I think that's due to the USB expansion card, which has never really worked properly. Hmm, actually, the presence of that card may well indicate that this other machine is the OG T410! [Correction, 4th March: I've established that the OG T410 is, in fact, the organ donor one which I've just installed Win7 on. Everything matches; I even have photos from 2014 of it throwing up the exact same BSOD error message as it does to this very day.)
MM loads up and is registered and connects via USB-Serial to the Geko. Result.
