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Hello!

Today I`m asking, is there any way to get connect USB Hard Drive to IBM ThinkPad 365XD? If there is, then what I have to do to do that? I know that I need some kind of ``special things`` but I`m not sure what. So if you can help me with that problem, please help.

Thank you.
-Prolehma

You can buy a PCMCIA card with USB ports. However, I'm not sure whether those USB hard drives will work with NT.

Thanks for the answer. Darn I hate that NT because I cant do anything with it... And I cant change OS because I have forgot my admin password. -.-

Hello,

sorry to tell you but you can forget adding a USB port to a 365XD.
The 365XD has a 16-bit PCMCIA slot, not a 32-bit slot.
The USB ports were designed in the time 16-bit slots were already considered to be "ancient" technology. So no manufacturer ever produced a 16-bit PCMCIA card with a USB port.
Moreover, a 16-bit slot would, even at maximum throughput rate, not be able to reach the specs for a USB port. Another reason it didn't (and doesn't) make sense to make 16-bit PCMCIA card with a USB port.

I have a 365XD also. To transfer data from/to the 365XD, I use either of two ways:

1. via a network connection (I have wireless and cabled network on my 365XD using standard PCMCIA cards)
2. using a PCMCIA Compact Flash adapter and a 8Gb CF card (CF card used as removable media)

This works well under Win98 and should also work under NT.

Prolehma wrote:Thanks for the answer. Darn I hate that NT because I cant do anything with it... And I cant change OS because I have forgot my admin password. -.-

Can you explain what you mean about the admin password?
Do you mean the password for NT?

I still think even if you follow emeu1's suggestions that NT may very well be a stumbling block in that the PCMCIA cards won't have drivers for NT.

You might want to look into http://www.delilinux.org/

I mean that when I have to log in, I can`t log in as admin because I have forgot that password. So I need to log in as guest and as a guest I can`t do anything. For example: I can`t change my current OS. You know ``You don`t have right`s to do that`` or something like that. And that`s really annoying.

But that Linux and CF thing sounds good, thanks about that.

Ah, okay.

Good luck!