Several things come to mind. If this is a 2 Cd install set, you need to make sure you set the BIOS to boot from CD first, not use F12, that somehow re-sets the BIOS and the second CD won't boot properly and it will give an incomplete install. This is a common issue on THinkPads. The other thing is that if the CD won't boot, it is either disk 2 or it is defective. As RayBay suggested, try to copy the CD. ALSO, if this is not a CD that is specific to your ThinkPad, it may not work. While often an IBM CD can be used on an ThinkPad, some of them are BIOS specific and just won't work unless it is the right thinkpad. They way around that is to put the hard drive into the proper ThinkPad and do the base install (at least the recovery partition), then replace into the unit and go from there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Tellefsen" <[email protected]> To: "thinkpad" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:54 AM Subject: [Thinkpad] Trying to install W2KPro after Wxp
> 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
