I think RayBay puts you in the right direction for the optical drive problem.
For installing W2K, you could as well just copy the complete directory /i386/ that contains all installation files onto the harddisk, and then use any bootable floppy or CD (W98, DOS or other) to start the install from that directory. No further need for the W2K CD afterwards. I quite like W2K and prefer it to XP in some respect and for older machines, but a T23 is quite recent and well capable of XP. However, to revert to W2K _JUST_ for the HP printer driver issue seems a bit over the top, doesn't it? Why not install the XP drivers in the proper way for the HP printer? While there seems to be an issue with XP drivers for the PSC500 series, there are clear instructions from HP support on how to go about it. Is that workaround really not working? Look for instance here: http://tinyurl.com/hp-psc500-driver Regards Richard Becker London > 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
