Booting a Thinkpad X31 from USB CD-Rom drive

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solitude · #1 Post by **solitude** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:32 am

Right, I've decided to windows from the recovery cds onto my thinkpad on the new 7k100 100gbhard disk.

The problem is, the thinkpad will not recognise my usb cdrom drive, and will not boot from it.

Any ideas why?

pianowizard · #2 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:42 am

Did you go to the BIOS and tell it to boot from the drive? I successfully booted my X22 from a USB CD drive and am sure the X31 can do the same because it's a much newer machine.

solitude · #3 Post by **solitude** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:57 pm

I had all the settings right.

After 4 hours of work...

Problem solved.
The problem?
Lacie drives are not bootable from USB.

I would recommend that nobody buys a lacie drive, ever.

senkan · #4 Post by **senkan** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:43 am

I just rebuilt an X31 and came across this thread before I started. I was concerned about LaCie USB drives not being recognized by an X31. I did tests and upgraded BIOS to current at 3.02 and set CD-ROM as boot drive.

I was able to rebuild using a LaCie USB 2.0 DVD-+RW (F.A. Porsche).

For those who have LaCie USB drives, they do work... at least in my case it did.

Just an FYI to the forums...

solitude · #5 Post by **solitude** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:41 am

This was an old model, which lacie confirmed not to work. :(

davodavo1 · #6 Post by **davodavo1** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:35 pm

senkan wrote:I just rebuilt an X31 and came across this thread before I started. I was concerned about LaCie USB drives not being recognized by an X31. I did tests and upgraded BIOS to current at 3.02 and set CD-ROM as boot drive.

I was able to rebuild using a LaCie USB 2.0 DVD-+RW (F.A. Porsche).

For those who have LaCie USB drives, they do work... at least in my case it did.

Just an FYI to the forums...

I'm trying to rebuild an x31's hdd using the CD-ROM that lives in the Ultrabay slot on the docking station. The CD-ROM reads just fine when it's the windows installer CD, but I can't seem to "see" the drive when I boot DOS. Why do I need to do this? Because I have a Ghost image that needs to run in DOS mode, and the image is on the CD.

Running BIOS 3.02 and the latest DOS CD driver from IBM (v3.2 of IBMTPCD.SYS)...the driver load fails. Just for thoruoughness, I did the same tests using a different X31 system. Is there something I have or haven't done to the docking station? Or is it possible its broken? The thing boots up just fine from a CD when it's the windows installer disk.

sjthinkpader · #7 Post by **sjthinkpader** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:42 am

Could this be due to power issues. Did you power the Lacie with an AC adapter?

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