Here's the deal:
I have an IBM 390E laptop. I recently purchased a DVD-ROM drive, which I planned on using to replace the
CD-ROM that came with the laptop. I disassembled the combination floppy/CD-rom, replaced
the CD-rom with the DVD-rom (a Toshiba DVD-rom with an IBM label on it, originally sold as an option for the 600
series), and
reinstalled the floppy/CD-rom.
No go. When I tried to boot off the DVD-rom, the thinkpad just
ignored it. THe DVDrom was definitely installed correctly, since if I boot off a Win98 boot floppy, I see and can
extract files
from a CD in the DVD-rom. But the Thinkpad doesn't seem to see if for purposes of booting. Is the CD-rom
somehow hardwired in the BIOS, so that anything but the original CD-rom doesn't get seen as a boot device?
Also, I inadvertantly reformatted the boot partition. No big deal, since it was just the factory partition anyway. But at
any rate, after not being able to boot directly from the DVD-rom, I replaced it with the CD-rom again. I installed the
restore CD (win98) and restarted. I get the Hello-in-many-languages screen that appears when the machine starts
to boot off the CD-rom, but then the machine seems to hang before coming up with anything else. Is it looking for
something on the C: partition? Or...Any suggestions? This
is reproducable--no matter how many times I try, it hangs at the same point. The restore CD worked fine before. And I can do a clean
install of Windows from the CD-rom using a standard Win98 CD (so
the CD itself is not defective).
Finally, is there any place I can get a copy of the boot/restore floppy that can be used in conjunction with the
restore CD? I don't have that. Is there any way I can either download it from IBM (didn't find it anywhere on their
Web site) or else create it?
I tried using a "stock" Windows 98 boot floppy and then navigating to the restore CD. But it wasn't clear how to
restore from the
CD...There wasn't an obvious (to me, anyway) autoexec.bat file...
Thanks,
dap
I have an IBM 390E laptop. I recently purchased a DVD-ROM drive, which I planned on using to replace the
CD-ROM that came with the laptop. I disassembled the combination floppy/CD-rom, replaced
the CD-rom with the DVD-rom (a Toshiba DVD-rom with an IBM label on it, originally sold as an option for the 600
series), and
reinstalled the floppy/CD-rom.
No go. When I tried to boot off the DVD-rom, the thinkpad just
ignored it. THe DVDrom was definitely installed correctly, since if I boot off a Win98 boot floppy, I see and can
extract files
from a CD in the DVD-rom. But the Thinkpad doesn't seem to see if for purposes of booting. Is the CD-rom
somehow hardwired in the BIOS, so that anything but the original CD-rom doesn't get seen as a boot device?
Also, I inadvertantly reformatted the boot partition. No big deal, since it was just the factory partition anyway. But at
any rate, after not being able to boot directly from the DVD-rom, I replaced it with the CD-rom again. I installed the
restore CD (win98) and restarted. I get the Hello-in-many-languages screen that appears when the machine starts
to boot off the CD-rom, but then the machine seems to hang before coming up with anything else. Is it looking for
something on the C: partition? Or...Any suggestions? This
is reproducable--no matter how many times I try, it hangs at the same point. The restore CD worked fine before. And I can do a clean
install of Windows from the CD-rom using a standard Win98 CD (so
the CD itself is not defective).
Finally, is there any place I can get a copy of the boot/restore floppy that can be used in conjunction with the
restore CD? I don't have that. Is there any way I can either download it from IBM (didn't find it anywhere on their
Web site) or else create it?
I tried using a "stock" Windows 98 boot floppy and then navigating to the restore CD. But it wasn't clear how to
restore from the
CD...There wasn't an obvious (to me, anyway) autoexec.bat file...
Thanks,
dap
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