A couple months ago, I bought an IBM ThinkPad R51 from eBay and got my hands on a genuine IBM power brick. I also had a bit of fun installing a Hitachi Travelstar in it. So now it's time to restore it to factory condition. Or specifically, restore it to Windows XP in German, a language which I only know a small amount of, despite knowing people who work for German companies. That being said, I don't think it's the absolute hardest thing to do, as I can understand how to use some bits of software in different languages, but said software is mostly developed by me, and so, of course I can, I know the inner workings of it. So much for doing this when I could've just used the English recovery media... as that's also available online. I hope you enjoy this video. Of course, the timestamps (at least for now) are in English: 0:00 - Introduction 0:35 - Context 2:51 - Starting the recovery media 6:55 - The actual recovery 8:14 - After what felt like a million hurdles 9:03 - What did this come with? 12:53 - What did I put on here? 13:54 - Gaming 16:23 - Conclusion Credits: - Video edited in DaVinci Resolve - Audio Recorded using Audacity - Thumbnail edited in Image Attributions: - - Tataryn, CC BY-SA 3.0 - - via Wikimedia Commons #windowsxp #recoverymedia #vintagecomputing Also check me out on: WEBSITE: MASTODON: @steelsofliquid INSTAGRAM: DEVIANTART: BLUESKY: GITHUB: DISCORD: SUBREDDIT: TWITCH: SCRATCH: