Laptop install trouble...

[Tim]

I'm trying to load XP on a laptop, the laptop is a IBM
ThinkPad A20m 500 Mhz celeron. The issue I'm having is
that my DOS boot disk's with cd-Rom universal drivers
doesn't seem work with the CD-ROM drive in the laptop...
I never installed it freash on a laptop before I didn't
think it was really going to be much different. Does
anybody have any advise or tricks I can use to get the CD-
ROM to work. I looked on IBM site but the drivers where
for Windows not DOS.

Thanks

TIM

 

[Tumbleweed]

I'm trying to load XP on a laptop, the laptop is a IBM
ThinkPad A20m 500 Mhz celeron. The issue I'm having is
that my DOS boot disk's with cd-Rom universal drivers
doesn't seem work with the CD-ROM drive in the laptop...
I never installed it freash on a laptop before I didn't
think it was really going to be much different. Does
anybody have any advise or tricks I can use to get the CD-
ROM to work. I looked on IBM site but the drivers where
for Windows not DOS.

Thanks

TIM

have you tried putting the XP CD in the drive, setting the BIOS to boot from
CD first, and then rebooting?

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm trying to load XP on a laptop, the laptop is a IBM
ThinkPad A20m 500 Mhz celeron. The issue I'm having is
that my DOS boot disk's with cd-Rom universal drivers
doesn't seem work with the CD-ROM drive in the laptop...

Do not try to do anything with DOS here. The XP CD is bootable, and the
laptop should have provision for booting the CD before HD.

But in such a case, I would first make certain that there are going to
be no issues of incompatibilities of the mahine's hardware - laptops
tend to have proprietary hardware; and then if you have a Windows system
on it , install in the first instance as an upgrade; running the CD from
the present system. That way you can back up the previous system
against an uninstall should things not work out; and will retain
installed software. An upgrade to XP replaces just about the entire
system, so the old idea of always doing clean installs as a matter of
course no longer applies