Installing W2K on 240X with USB CD Drive

[Fleximaster]

Hello,

I have resigned myself to the fact that I need to completely reinstall Win2k on my 240X and press f7 at a secret point in the install process in order to disable acpi and therefore stop the blue screen of death appearing.

The recovery disks are no good for the installation because they don't do the normal windows setup procedures - it partitions and formats the hard drive, and then copies all the data over and restarts the computer.

I have therefore bought a second hand copy of win2k and created bootdisks using the win2k cd. However, I can't get the IBM USB cd drive to work now!

I obviously need to modify the windows boot disks to load the IBM USB CD ROM driver, but don't know how!

Surely this is a problem that many people have discovered in the past, and hopefully someone can tell me how to do it, or where to download some modified bootdisks.

Your help would be appreciated!

Regards,
fleximaster

[jdhurst]

I don't entirely understand. The 240x is Windows 2000 certified, so the recovery CD'd should work just fine. The way you describe it, they are working just fine. Once done, the machine should not Blue Screen.

I have long not had a 240x, but the Windows XP setup disks sure worked with the USB CD Rom. The machine is not ACPI compliant, so XP did not work very well on it.

... JD Hurst