Re: imation drives, TP365XD drivers, fresh installing of Win95

["Fabian Rodriguez" <MagicFab@BigFoot.Com>]

The only thing you'll need to install Win95 from scratch on a 365XD is:

 

1) The MS-DOS CDROM drivers available from IBM site

2) Choose to have Win95 NOT detect your hardware and then uncheck the video, network, audio and PCMCIA devices

3) activate PCMCIA from Control Panel once all is installed

4) Remove MSDOC CDROM drivers once Win95 is installed, Win95 will have its own 32bit drivers that recognize the 365XD drive

5) ONLY THEN install audio. video and other drivers. You are often asked for the CDROM thru those installs and if you do it before, the CD will be unavailable.

 

I have gone thru 5 fresh installs. starting to get it!

-----Original Message-----
From: David Crombie <david@crombie.com>
To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu <thinkpad@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 2:10 PM
Subject: imation drives

I have a broken floppy drive on a 365XD.  I'm wondering, instead of spending $200 on a new drive if I could use one of the new 3m Imation 120MB superdisks to boot my machine. In other words, if attached to the parallel port, what do I have to change to get the machine to boot from there rather than the A: drive port.

 

The other question - if the above doesn't work - Does anybody have a boot disk with cd rom drivers/config.sys/etc..  for the 365XD so I can fresh intall from the CDrom???

 

Thanks

 

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