Back in business, baby!
The ThinkPad is again humming away. An easy fix, really: all it took was installing the new hard drive, creating a custom boot disk, partitioning the drive, formatting the drive, reformatting the drive so it would boot as a system disk, finding the custom external CD drivers, further customizing the boot disk to load said drivers, spending three days researching why large executable files wouldn't load off the CD and why the six-floppy set of Windows XP boot disks produced a Blue Screen Of Death with an “UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE” error, exploring possible USB CD drive driver alternatives, and finally, finding and downloading a CD driver boot disk off a Russian-language web site, rebooting, and loading Windows XP setup.
Did I mention I'd like one of these?
Oh, and I hope to get the comments here fixed ... this weekend? Bear with me, please.
Posted by Avocare at July 7, 2003 09:16 PM | TrackBack