LGR - Restoring a 1997 IBM ThinkPad 380XD

Cleaning, upgrading, and reinstalling the original operating system and drivers for this classic Think Pad laptop from 1997! Error 161 and 163 are no big deal and installing the highest-capacity HDD of the time is cathartic.

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Downtown Alley 1 and 3

[SlackerKite]

Find a man that treats you like LGR treats 90s hardware.

[helgenx]

I've been using the Windows 95 startup sound as my ringtone for the past year. Everyone always asks me why it sounds so familiar because they don't know where exactly it's from, I just tell them "it's a part of life."

[matthewrease]

"I don't like that kind of noise coming from a battery."
I don't like ANY noise coming from a battery o_o

[signbear]

"Let's apply that crap without restarting!"
This man likes to live on the edge.

[neurobioboy]

I was a child in 1997... And at this time I was amazed by the power you can get from a so thin device! Remember TV was huge, PC monitor was gigantic, PC tower was big too, an suddenly: a pc and a monitor for "almost nothing in space". Man it was a shock for me! Awesome channel! Thank you LGR!!!!

[ludre]

A wood grain toothbrush... I love this channel!!! 😀

[DrewChapman]

My morning just got a whole lot better, love these videos where you work on old stuff to bring life back into it.

[lds_drive]

The setup background looked so futuristic back then but now it looks like something that an average person can come up with in 5 mins on Paint.

[mikalvogel]

“I like the feel of a fresh... nipple.” LGR, 2017

[TimMug]

I keep coming back to this video, it's therapeutic to see and listen to it. It seems to get better every viewing on top of it.

[ns]

It's amazing to think that the phone (A FREAKING CELLPHONE!) that I'm watching this on has more storage than that machine. Technology is amazing.

[xRocketzFighterx]

I like to imagine that laptop has one big virtual smile on the monitor saying "thanks for cleaning me <3".

[Modtro]

"Hey guys I found a disk drive, do you need this?"
Yes I do computer, that's okay.

I don't know why, but this bit cracked me up xD

[avianographer]

I know this is a year old, but I've seen you do this a few times now. A "proper" way to copy over the CAB files is to start by creating C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copying the entirety of the WIN95 or WIN98 directory into it. You then run SETUP from that directory instead of the CD-ROM. That's where OEMs like Dell and Gateway 2000 loaded the CAB files.

[Galm_]

7:54
"Nice"
- Steve1989MREInfo

[jjrg]

I feel my soul being cleansed watching this

[staberas]

"fresh.... nipple"
-LGR 2017

[TheBandy]

Ah! There's nothing like watching a new high quality LGR video after working a 12-hour shift as night security and just a couple of hours of sleep. It feels sort of cozy.

[sayparler]

Watching this on my brand new 2018 ThinkPad makes me pleased to see that, even after the handover to Lenovo, the core design and construction of these laptops are quite similar!
It's very pleasing to see where certain features, and design language comes from, the ruggedness, the purpose built, "have the job done" style is awesome!
Well done IBM, and keep it up Lenovo!
BTW, great video as always! ;)

[nighttimestalker]

Back then

"Holy hell. 6.4gb!"

Now
"Bruh. You only have 1tb?"