It appears either you DVD CD drive has gone bad, or the CD is scratched or marred in some way. Try polishing the disc with denatured alcohol and a very soft cloth rubbing in small circular motions... or put the disk in a desktop DVD-RW CD-RW drive and copy it there, then use the copy in the thinkpad. Sometimes the fresh copy works better than the original.
You might also try cleaning the Thinkpad CD Drive with compressed difluoroethane gas (dust off, but do not touch the lense with ANYTHING... Does the Thinkpad drive read other CD's ? ________ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Bob Tellefsen <[email protected]> wrote: > My laptop is a T22 T'pad, with Wxp SP3 installed on it. > Works fine, but I have a problem. > > It turns out that Wxp does not support my hp PSC500 > All-in-One printer/copier/scanner. I want to revert back to > Win 2K Pro which does support it. I have other machines > running Wxp so don't need it on this laptop. > > The problem comes up when I try to install W2K from the > CD. Even though I have the BIOS set to boot from the > CD drive, it doesn't. > > I've tried making up a boot disk set of floppies and booting > from there. Goes fine until the end of the fourth floopy > when it says it can't find the CD. Of course it can't, the > floppy drive is still in place. Swapping out the drives > doesn't help, as the at that point, the boot disk is only > giving me one choice, Press F3 to Quit. Nothing about > trying again with the CD drive in place. > > How can I get W2K Pro back on this machine? Any > ideas would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Bob T. > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
