Did it! Installed win2000 on a 240x

[goanuj]

It look me a while, but I will post the steps in case anyone else wants to do it.

I am now using a 60GB harddrive on my little thinkpad 240x it's so cute and teeny like a little mechanical baby you will need a win98 bootdisk with smartdrv.exe on it (smartdrv.exe) can be found on the internet, if people are really interested, I will post it on my webpage.

1. Make a FAT32 partition and put the win2k files on it. (20gb), let's call the directory 2kcab
2. Make a NTFS partition and leave it EMPTY (important)

The above two steps will probably require the use of another computer and a portable laptop HDD case (with proper USB cable)

3. put the new HD into the computer.
4. Boot computer with a win98 bootdisk.
5. type smartdrv c+
then typecd c:\2kcab\i386, type winnt.exe and click enter.
6. It will ask you some stuff and then you will need to format your c:\ drive to be NTFS.
7. Automatically reboots itself, and changes from FAT32 to NTFS.
8. Connect the PCMCIA cdrom and put the win2k installation disk inside of it.
8. Automatically reboots itself, and starts to go through the installation,
9. sets up some files and then reboots again.
10. this time you should see a windows screen and wait a while, but eventually the harddrive will spin up and you will start the graphical part of the installation.
11. Install win2k graphically, this will take about 20-30 minutes.
12. Reboots itself again, and you should now to be able to log in!

In order for this partition to be bootable you may have to download tomsrootboot and do this:

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fdisk -l

if there is not a '*' in the boot partition you are in trouble.

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fdisk /dev/hda
command (m):  a
Partition (1-4): 1
command (m):  w

Reboot! and you should be ok...

[divebubba47]

You've done exactly what I've been thinking. Can you tell me what model disk drive you used.