BTW, you mentioned XP SP3 Is the printer supported in SP2 or SP1? This is a common issue with SP3 Most if not all HP all in one units should have some sort of support in XP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Markowitz" <[email protected]> To: "Bob Tellefsen" <[email protected]>; "thinkpad" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Trying to install W2KPro after Wxp
> 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
