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
Probably not because that vintage of Thinkpad might not have DOS implement USB. It normally does not. Therefore the drive does not exist until Windows is loaded. A Thinkpad w/o CD ROM must be pretty long in the tooth. IS there a modular drive that can be replaced by a CD ROM or DVD?
You shouldn't have any problems booting from an External CDrom with that system. It boots from a USB floppy just fine, so as long as the boot order is set with the CDROM first, I would think it should work just fine....
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