Installing windows 7 clean.

Have the Thinkpad X200 and want to place the windows 7 operating system on it.
The previous system XP has locked up and will not even come on.
Help please.

Hi and welcome to the forum!
You will need an X200 dock with optical drive or a USB optical drive to install Win 7 on X200, in any case don't forget to set the CD/DVD-ROM as 1st bootable device in the BIOS (press F1 to access on the boot).
Clean installation guide can be found here:- http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-74108.html
If the previous OS was factory installed by lenovo, then you can use ThinkVantage button on boot to reset the OS, follow the procedure from step 5:- http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70803#step5
Hope this helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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