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ibm laptop with a external usb cdrw

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Tchen811

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I just bought a ibm thinkpad, but it doesn't come with a cd rom. So I was thinking of getting an external cdrw. But I have this question, can I boot xp cd off of the external drive? Will the computer recognize the drive? Thanks


 
I don't think so - only the newest latops have BIOSes that support USB in DOS, and that is what it takes to have a USB boot drive. A Thinkpad with no CD drive is pretty old by laptop standards.

You posted this same question in the genral hardware forum - and multiple posts across different forums is verboten. 🙁
 
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