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IBM ThinkPad 760EL-Boot Sequence Problem

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by silverstache

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I have an IBM - thinkpad 760EL Laptop computer. Model 9547. Completed FDISK. Primary partition C is active at 100% utilization. Fat 32. Reformatted C. I have one bay which is used to swap the FDD and CDROM. I can boot with WIN98 floppy boot disk. Problem is Once I remove the FDD and insert the CDROM, I am unable to load WIN98 O/S. No drivers for the swappable CDROM load from the A: drive at boot. The Bios does not contain a boot sequence option for CDROM (Bummer.....). Can anyone make suggestions on how I can load the O/S which is on CD? Any suggestion is appreciated.

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by alpha-male

How about this:

Boot to the floppy. Sys the hard drive so it is bootable and copy the utilities, autoexec.bat, config.sys and files for the CD-Rom to the HD. Then boot to your bootable HD with the CD-Rom in the bay. Then boot to your HD and install your OS from the CD.

If the generic Cd drivers from the boot disk don't work for some reason, get the needed drivers online, install them and modify your config/autoexec files accordingly. Then boot to your HD and install your OS from the CD.
Hope this helps! Good luck...

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