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Similar but not quite to the 600 thread...

Got a Transcend 4GB CF card with a CF to IDE adapter.

Spent literally days trying to somehow get T*nyXP (any option) on the machine. Closest I've gotten was to use a T30, run install from CD, install on CF card in the HD caddy. Finishes install, boots to Windows on the T30. Put CF card into 240, and I get a BSOD about 2 seconds into startup (before the "Windows XP" boot screen). In safe mode, bootup crashes on the agp440.sys driver for whatever reason.

I'm running monitoring software so the 240 is perfectly able to handle it and its size is perfect too. Booo!! I know I'm spending waay too much time on this and I can solve it simply by replacing it with a netbook or the T30 but...!!!!!!!

Hi,

Look at viewtopic.php?f=6&t=73179&start=0.

Is an option I am using with w2k.

Cheers

Format using Fat-32...worked for me on an X40.

Yup, I'm using FAT32. I've installed WinXP just fine, off the regular "full" install with a Win98SE boot disk with ASPI USB drivers. Now obviously there's an incredible amount of stuff loaded and resident in memory that I don't need, so I tried nLite, but I still can't get it down to what TinyXP is like. The full version of XP running with all the unneeded processes, etc. is quite slow on the 240 (as expected.)

TinyXP BARE works just great for what I need it to do. Caveat is... the disc and "make ISO" versions don't have setup or winnt.exe so I can't install it from DOS. So I scrounged up six floppy disks for the floppy install but aaargh corrupted file on disc 4...!

I just need to boot to and/or load the PCMCIA 20x external drivers and it should be much easier!! I think my drive is defective, doing all the IBM downloads and loading drivers it doesn't detect the IDE card or drive.