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I got a Transnote recently and I'm having quite a bit of trouble trying to use the recovery disk. I cant get my Portable Drive Bay 2000 to be recognized by the recovery disk. Does anyone know how to get the drive recognized? or How to successfully use the recovery disk?

Make sure to have the latest BIOS (1.02) installed: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4UDSMK
You need a USB floppy drive to accomplish this.
Older BIOS versions recognize only very few USB CD/DVD drives.

I have the newest bios. I've already installed XP on it so I know the bios recognizes the drive. When I boot from the recovery disk, I can choose to recover the Transnote but after that I get the error message that the drive isn't found.

You may have a bad CD.
I have installed XP-FLP on my Transnote with (currently) 192MB RAM. HD is a 5400/40GB/8MBcache Fujitsu.
OOTB nearly everything worked straight away.
It boots to the desktop in under a minute, much faster than my PC with 4-core CPU and 4GB RAM!
I never bother with recovery partitions, they are useless and usually contain outdated software and loads of crud.

However, to be able to use the recovery CDs, you must first wipe your HD with e.g. DBAN or KillDisk.
It's enough to let them run until ~5% is wiped, then you can cancel that and proceed with the install.

Not to butt in, but why XP-FLP?

Mine has full XP completely updated and runs a tad slow compared to newer equipment, but I'm happy with it.

Just curious!

Thanks.
Joe

I prefer XP without the crud (like Outlook Express).

RBS wrote:

I prefer XP without the crud (like Outlook Express).

+ 1. And it makes a world of difference on any single-core unit, especially on something of TransNote's vintage...

Off topic
Will a VLK work with XP-FLP

Ron

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