Sorry for OT post. There are many Win experts on list, and hoping
someone knows the answer.
My wife wants to use my old Thinkpad 240 sitting in my closet. It has
IBM USB external CDROM drive, which won't boot, naturally. I have
searched bootdisk.com and IBM site but there is no DOS driver for
David W. Fenton / 2006/05/13 / 11:59 AM wrote:
I think there ought to be a way to install Win2K from the CD,
assuming an OS is already installed that can read the CD. If it's
Win9x, just reboot to the DOS prompt, and run the install from there.
Of course, that rather assumes DOS drivers, which
On 13 May 2006 at 12:39, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Since it has Win2KJP on it that I installed with the tedious steps I
mentioned, installing by copying cab files from Setup.exe running
under Win32 is possible as you suggested. My problem is I want to
reformat the drive before installing, or I
David W. Fenton / 2006/05/13 / 01:58 PM wrote:
Well, the way to do that is to use non-destructive partitioning
software like Partition Magic to create a new partition to which you
copy the files. Then wipe the old partition and install from the new
one.
I am a long time Power Quest products
On 13 May 2006 at 14:28, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2006/05/13 / 01:58 PM wrote:
Well, the way to do that is to use non-destructive partitioning
software like Partition Magic to create a new partition to which you
copy the files. Then wipe the old partition and install from the
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Sorry for OT post. There are many Win experts on list, and hoping
someone knows the answer.
My wife wants to use my old Thinkpad 240 sitting in my closet. It has
IBM USB external CDROM drive, which won't boot, naturally. I have
searched bootdisk.com and IBM site but
David W. Fenton / 2006/05/13 / 02:59 PM wrote:
Not sure I understand. Setup.exe copied from the install CD should
not be a Windows program. It will launch the Windows GUI in contexts
where it makes sense, but is actually a DOS program, so should run
from a Win9x command prompt.
Nope.
I just
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 11:44 -0400, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry for OT post. There are many Win experts on list, and hoping
someone knows the answer.
My wife wants to use my old Thinkpad 240 sitting in my closet. It has
IBM USB external CDROM drive, which won't boot,
