[Thinkpad] formatting hard drive without floppy drive, boot to PCMCIA card?

> 1. You need a floppy drive and a charged battery to updatre the BIOS.
>
>2. There could be a BIOS issue, but sometimes you really need to
FSDISK the hard drive IN the machine. No floppy drive? Oops!

I have been able to boot my 560x to a 15 Mb PCMCIA (People Can't
Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms) card with DOS 6.2.2 on it.
The internal hard drive appeared as D: and I was able to format and
partition it.
With my new 512 Mb card I could even install Win98 from the card Except
the card is full of data (drawings, documents, e-mail.

Don't know what other thinkpads will let you boot to a card but it's
worth trying.
Press F1 during startup and see if it let's you set the card as a
startup volume.

-- 
Andrew Ann Arbor
owner of the stealth thinkpad 560 (run silent, run slow)
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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