Thinkpads Forum

I have a IBM ThinkPad 560X and I installed a 16GB CF in it. It works fine and such but When I installed Windows 95, "14 Floppy Set" it only made a 1.99GB out of the 16GB. I took the card out and reformated it on the desktop CF adapter to its full 16GB and reput back in the 560X and put in my Windows ME boot disk and seleted boot without CD-ROM Support and I put in the disk 1 of the 95 floppy install and type setup and it goes through fine and asks for disk 2 and put it in and then after I get to the end a Error box comes up "Error SU-0013" Error SU0013
Setup could not create files on your startup drive and cannot set up Windows. If you have HPFS or Windows NT file system, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compression, disable it before running Setup. See SETUP.TXT on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CD-ROM.

I want to use my full 16GB and not a 1.99GB, as I spent $60 for the 16GB CF

You are running into the 2GB partition size limitation of W95.
Format only the first 2GB for W95, then create a second partition for the rest.
Or try W98 or rather W98SE instead.

I did some information look up on Hard Drives. Right now I got Windows 2000 Professional on it. And I got the graphics card finally working okay. For some reason the Driver I downloaded from lenovo.com Neomagic 128XD type III didn't want to work on 95,98. I'm going to put Windows XP Home Edition back on it like I did with the hard Disk Drive it had. From what it said online If I just keep the 1 partition "1.99GB" theres a program or something that will alow it to bring the unpartition half into the C: Drive giving me my full 16GB. And for some reason my ThinkPad 560X and 380Z will not read NTFS partitions.

If you want to run XP on that 16GB HD, you should format it in FAT32 anyway, not NTFS.
Utils like Partition Magic and Gparted can combine 2 partitions into one.

I have FAT32 on it. I guess I have to upgrade to Windows XP Professional insted of Windows XP Home. So it don't matter, I'll just use my Pro CD then. Does anyone know about the combining the unPartition half to the C: partition? I read online it can be done. And where can I download the program? and how does it work to do the combination?

I'm a bit late to this but how does 2000 Pro run on it? I gave up using mine when I went to wireless networking and it groaned too much running the wireless card. I was using 98SE with the maximum memory and although the performance was OK I wouldn't have thought of installing anything more demanding.

Windows 2000 Professional runs fine on it. Before I traded my IBM ThinkPad 560 for a 560X, my 560 "1996 Model" Intel Pentium I 120MHz, 72MB RAM ran Windows XP Home Edition fine, sold it for the USB model 560X since the PCMCIA USB cards wouldn't work on my 560, and really need a USB port for todays uses, even if its 1.0