Help with IBM X30

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by rod900rr, Feb 4, 2006.

  1. rod900rr

    rod900rr Private E-2

    Hi,

    Just bought a second hand Thinkpad X30 off eBay (I know!!). It arrived with no floppy drive, no CD drive and no O/s installed. Have tried plugging in external CD drive to boot from Win XP CD, but no luck. Reset BIOS defaults, no luck. My tools are - USB CD drive, USB External HDD, USB flash drive and Win XP CD.

    Any advice welcome....:confused:

    Thanks

    Rod
     
    rod900rr, Feb 4, 2006
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  2. shnerdly

    shnerdly MajorGeek

    I work on a lot of ThinkPads. I haven't worked on an X yet but R and G models have to be enabled in BIOS for USB Boot. If there isn't an option there, it won't boot USB.

    If you need a standard IBM UltraBay CDROM, I could sell one for about $10.00 plus direct shipping costs. That would be a regular UltraBay drive, not the thin one.
     
    shnerdly, Feb 4, 2006
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