absolute bargain - Thinkpad 240 £65 shipped!

[Legend66]

got myself a thinkpad 240 400mhz, 192mb, 12gb HD, floppy, external HD enclosure, and amazingly enough a pretty much BRAND NEW extended battery (3+ hours!) ive got XP on the machine, brilliant. and all for just £65 including postage! mwahhahaha!

hehe sorry couldnt resist, im feeling rather good surprisingly enough! (oh, just got to activate XP......... )[/list]

[pianowizard]

Wow, congratulations!

[azX32]

I have a 300MHz 240 with 320MB RAM and would like to know if you installed the XP yourself. If so, can you elaborate on how you did it?

I'd like to upgrade mine from 98SE to XP. The USB port on the 240 is broken, and though I have a USB CD-ROM which I'm able to use via a USB 2.0 PCMCIA adapter, I'm wondering if this would be recognized during bootup for the install media. I do have the original 240 floppy drive, as well as a PCMCIA network adapter.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[mmthomas]

my 240 usb port broke as well. The internal plastic tongue broke off. I tried to fix it but the 5v power is not showing up at the connector. Any ideas on that?

[pianowizard]

No, the TP240 can't boot from USB. You should take out the HDD, set it up as a slave HDD via an adapter (costs about $5) in a desktop computer, copy all files from the WinXP CD onto the HDD, put it back into your TP240, start Win98, and run the WinXP installation within Win98.