Question IBM Thinkpad Lenovo T61 laptop and Windows 98

[macmayne]

Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum. Was advised by IBM Help staff to join Tom's Hardware Forum as I am in dire straits for some help.
I am in Sydney Australia.
I own a very old but reliable and working IBM Thinkpad Lenovo T61 laptop. The Product ID is 7661-BZ8.

The laptop used to have a version of Microsoft Vista for a platform but recently, as I had needed to use Windows 98 Second Edition as a platform to enable me to install my Yamaha's Magic Stomp Sound Editor and work on sound editing, I inadvertently reformatted my Thinkpad and installed Windows 98. My laptop is now missing all the necessary drivers I need to get the laptop and platform working.

Please advise if you can provide me with all necessary drivers or point me in the right direction so that I can get my Lenovo to work once again under Windows 98, if possible.
I believe that anyone who has a similar laptop and has Windows 98 would be in a stronger position to help me. However, anyone's immeasurable assistance and advice would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,

 

[geofelt]

Try installing the drivers for a different version of windows like vista.
Here is a list:
https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Drivers/download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/T61.html

I used to have a T61, a nice machine until it failed.
If you replace the HDD with a ssd, you will get a miraculous boost in performance.

 

[Dave8671]

Well for windows 98 your out if luck there for drivers lenovo took that OS and drivers off the website years ago. The only think I could recomend is windows 7 64bit which can use more ram [ memory] You will need to change rights on the applications shortcut to administer. Windows 7 is a much better OS than vista was. To buy it on amazon. Thank go go here for drivers.

http://www.driverslenovo.com/2017/01/download-lenovo-thinkpad-t61-drivers.html?m=1

 

[COLGeek]

You can try here, but please be wary. Lots of nefarious sites and sources to be found.

Wayback Machine

archive.org