Thanks Dave and Alex it seems to be sorted now. I tried another external dvd rom and it worked straight off leaving me perplexed. So it could be down to a dodgy cable,flakey booting on the x61? or some other weird thing to do with the orig dvd rom which originally worked.
Off to see if i can set it up with just the system update downloading the drivers itself. Martin N At 01:49 27/04/2012, you wrote:
Most external CD readers can read off a single USB cable, even if they require a paired cable for power for writing. However, the suggestion to try another port is a good one. If it doesn't work on that port, I would also try it on another computer (to see if the drive has failed), and would also try some other USB device on the laptop (we keep a USB floppy drive around, it is great for testing ports). David -------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex Austin" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:08 PM To: "Martin N" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] X61 cant boot from USB CDrom drive Is your CDROM drive powered by itself, or does it use USB power? If USB power, does it have a double cable that goes into two ports? If not, have you tried a different USB port in case the polyfuse on the one you were on opened?
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