Re: [Thinkpad] [TP 600X] Has anyone actually booted from a PC Card?

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From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 23:05:09 EST

> > Has anyone actually booted a ThinkPad 600X (or anything else) from a
> > PCMCIA card hard disk?
>
> I do this regularly with a PC card flash disk on my 560 and 560X. It
> doesn't work on my wife's T23.
>
> > I bought an "IBM 105MB PCMCIA Hard Disk," model 8105PA, vintage
1994,
> > apparently (and very cheap), full-formatted it from DOS with the /S
>
> Did you do this from the Windows version of DOS, or a 'pure' DOS? Try
> formatting etc from a non-Windows DOS (eg, bootdisk.com)

Actually, I should have said that I formatted with IBM PC DOS 7.1 (= PC
DOS 2000). It's probably a problem with the drive itself.

Edward Mendelson

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