I'm not the most experienced with factory restoring old hardware, and this is my first time doing this, so I'm going to need some step by step help here.

So I got a Thinkpad 770, burned my own 770 recovery disk, and I have a really old bootable Norton Commander floppy for Windows 95 that I use as a boot disk to go into DOS. The 5.1GB IDE HDD has no OS on it ATM, as I wiped the hard drive clean (it had Win2000, too lazy to buy more RAM so it can boot into it properly, so I just wiped it).

When I tried to go through the whole recovery process with only the recovery disk, on the second part of the recovery process, I got "Error Reading Drive Z:," and I was told to put a boot disk in my system, as that would fix it so DOS reorders the drive letters properly so that my ext. FDD is read as A: instead of B: or whatever it was. So I got that working, and the FDD is read as A:, and I have volumes B: (for the floppy disk again), C: (for the hard drive), and then I have D: and E: which apparently have nothing on them, so I can't seem to find a way to get into my CD drive. I went all the way up alphabetically to see if my CD drive was under any weird partition letter and I only seemed to have A:, B:, C:, D:, and E:.

Can anyone enlighten me on what to do?

I'm also thinking I screwed up my boot order too (FDD1, FDD2, CD Drive, then HDD, I wasn't 100% sure if my external floppy drive would be 1 or 2), does anyone have a screenshot of one that would be perfect for this scenario?

@oeuvre I remember a thread in which you restored one of these, how did you do so?