From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 00:45:24 EST
if you have another thinkpad with a 2nd HDD adapter or another computer with
a CD and the ability to put the X20 HDD on it, do it and copy the w2k CAB
files to the HDD, then also make the drive bootable with smartdrv.exe and
associated files, then boot to DOS and go to the wxp directory and execute
winnt.exe which will load w2k..
this convoluted process is the only way i can think of for you to get an OS
on that X20.. :-)
if you have more misc. hardware there, let me know..
<------------------------------->
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Forrest English" <forrest_at_truffula.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: X20 problems
> my X20 just showed up in the mail, and of course i've already messed it
> up.
>
> i booted it up to make sure it worked. windows came up ok. i wanted to
> use FIPS to reduced the size of the windows partition, and then use the
> bootable compact flash slot (at least 2 people told me yesterday that it
> was bootable.
>
> so i put in a compact flash card that had a zipfile on it from another
> laptop. windows recognized the card, loaded drivers. but, it didn't
> make it a drive. i had no drive letter to access, the card was in the
> device manager, but not accessable in anyplace i looked. so i tried
> putting the compact flash card in a pcmcia adapter. same deal.
>
> so i shut down, did the system reload thing by hitting F11. it went
> through that, said it was going to reboot. it then rebooted and sat at a
> prompt like this *< for a few minutes. then it looked like *<*< and
> after 5 minutes or so, *<*<*<*< it sat like that for another 5 minutes
> doing nothing.
>
> i shut down then, made sure all the bios options were default. they
> were. i rebooted. and left it to boot into windows. it won't boot into
> windows. now it just goes past the thinkpad splash screen and then goes
> to *< in the upper left hand corner with a blinking cursor. nothing else
> happens.
>
> hoping that not all is lost and i could at least get debian on there, i
> tried booting from the compact flash slot (i assume this is the only
> option in the F12 select a boot device that isn't obvious what it
> is). nothing happens, it ignores the compact flash card with a debian
> iso on it. and boots to the *< with nothing happening again.
>
> i can't get back to the system reload option anymore either.
>
> i need to have windows boot, prefferably recognize the compact flash card
> so i can transfer files to and from, because thats how i need to get
> drivers for my wireless card on there. and i need to know how to boot
> from the compact flash card.
>
> anyone want to help me out here? with no floppy or cdrom, i'm somewhat
> limited here in what i can do here.
>
>
> --
> Forrest English
> http://truffula.net/~forrest
>
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> http://awip.truffula.net
>
> "When we have nothing left to give
> There will be no reason for us to live
> But when we have nothing left to lose
> You will have nothing left to use"
> -Fugazi
>
>
>
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