Restoring T30 from recovery CD set and going round and round in circles!!!

Hi!
I bought an IBM ThinkPad T30 model 2367-8G3 from a computer fair which appeared to have originally been Scandinavian by the look of its keyboard!!!
When I got it home I found it had a pirated copy of XP Pro VLK that practically every computer-fair reseller in the UK seems to use, so I wiped the HDD with a secure deletion tool and ordered a genuine set of three 2366/2367 Product Recovery CDs.
The Recovery Program will run but aborts with a basic version of XP bit no IBM drivers, manuals or anything else, nor does it continue with CD2 & CD3 - if I reboot with CD1 again the Recovery Program will start, and pkunzip will execute the unpacking of innummerable files, from both CD2 & CD3 then ask for CD1 again and start with XP Text-Mode Setup ad-nauseum until I ended up with ***Six*** Boot Menu Entries for XP Professional, no IBM tools, drivers etc., on any ***one*** of 'em!!! Also there is ***No IBM_Service Partition*** either!!!
1) Are the Motherboards locality - specific rendering a US/UK-set of Recovery cds useless?
2) Somebody said it was a BIOS setting that caused this but didn't say what the setting-change needed was! I have upgraded to BIOS Version 2.10, Embedded Controller version 1.07.
Has anybody solved this enigma, and if so can they please point me in the direction of a correct solution? I have Electronics Repair knowledge, so if there the motherboard has a locality-specific chip I can search for a dud one on ebay etc., and swap whatever it is that stores the localisation data!!!
Many thanks,
Chris Williams

Chris, welcome to the forum,
it sounds as though the drive hasn't been properly deleted. Even though you have "deleted" the drive I suggest you give Secure Data Disposal a try, using it at it's lowest level should suffice without writing a report to disc. Also make sure you reset your BIOS by selecting default settings and then in the BIOS Startup > Boot menu set the cd drive as first boot device.
Hope this helps
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