240 boot disk with PCMCIA CD drive support - how to create??

[redshoot]

Hi

I have an old 240x in excellent condition, my problem is that I want to reinstall the operating system.

The external CD rom is attached via PCMCIA, so I need a boot disk that supports this drive.

I had one but it no longer wants to work.

It is an IBM drive, and it uses devbay.exe. I am not sure how to modify a Win98 boot disk to do this

Any help greatly appreciated.

Stu

[vincentfox]

A link:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... ht=#124132

[Kurt]

This is just what you need!

http://www.semanchuk.com/philip/560ZInstall.html

If you scroll down the web page, you can find the links of IBM PCMCIA 8/20X & 4X CD-ROM drivers.

Good luck!

[dsvochak]

...my problem is that I want to reinstall the operating system

Two questions:

1) Are you using a generic Windows install CD and if so, what version of windows? or

2) Are you trying to restore the system using an IBM Recovery CD?

The reason I ask is, using the system recovery CD could be more complicated to get proper drivers installed than using a generic Windows install CD.