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I changed the boot order in Easy Setup, but it still boots from the HD or tries to boot from the floppy, seemingly ignoring the CD-ROM bootable disk (an ISO disk image). Is it difficult to get the 600E to boot from a CD??

I've never had any problems with any of the 600s booting from the CD Sarge.

Perhaps your ISO image isn't bootable?

Try a known bootable CD.

Regards,

James

The ISO image is SUPPOSED to be bootable. It came from http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities ... mage.shtml (scroll down to SystemRescueCD). It is supposed to boot Linux from the CD. Then you use some Linux tools to recover/image/restore the HD. Might have been a bad download since I didn't verify the file (it's rather large!). I downloaded again and it checked good, so will try burning another disc. I'm using Nero and the USB 1.1 port from the Thinkpad, burning at 8X speed. Will try the DVD drive I just got instead of the original CD drive. I tried the first disc I burned in my HP6000 and it wouldn't boot either, so must be the CD. My HP6000 ate its HD, so it's a goof thing I hadn't sent the 600E off yet! Was waiting on the DVD drive and to get a good image of the HD first.

If your burner doesn't have buffer underrun protection, burning at 8x on a USB 1.1 port is risky. 8x speed requires 11.52Mbps, and the wire speed of USB is 12Mbps, and the payload rate is quite a bit lower.

If your next one doesn't work, try a burn at 4x, and of course, if the disc won't boot in any machine, it's not the ThinkPad's fault. Similarly, if the disc will boot in even one machine, it should also boot in the ThinkPad.

Thanks! Will just burn at slowest speed and try that. I also downloaded again and ran a check on the checksum value to verify it this time.