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

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From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 03:29:23 EST

> could be made ACTIVE. In other words, if you have the
> hard drive in the computer to run Windows allowing
> access to the PCMCIA hard drive you can't make it
> ACTIVE and if you take out the original hard drive you
> can't access the PCMCIA drive. I even tried taking the
> hard drive out and booting from a Windows CD to try
> and run FDISK to set the PCMCIA drive active but then
> couldn't access the PC slots.

What you have to do is (a) tell the system to boot from the floppy instead of the HD, and (b) have a set of DOS PC card drivers in a directory somewhere (HD is OK) so the DOS floppy's config files can find and call them.
Doesn't affect the WIndows installation at all.

Again, this was on a 560X (works also on a 560), it is possible (if unlikely!) that it wouldn't work as well on a 600X.

> There is probably a utility out there somewhere that
> can make any drive ACTIVE but without that it isn't
> bootable.

Any partition manager should be able to do this, but in any event it is not a problem if one installs DOS on the pc card disk the way I did it.

- David R.

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