Dear Sir,
I 've started up the systm with my flash with startup disk for windows 98 and used fdisk to partition it . but when i tried to format the hardisk partitions to install widnows , the format C: command did not work telling me that "THIS PROGRAM CAN NOT RUN UNDER DOS MODE" . I do not know why .
I am trying to use windows minipe to start with but it loaded to dos prompt only and did not go further .
can you help to start the laptop with windows minipe .
Thanks,
Dr.Waleed Makarem
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by: beechfielderPosted on 2006-07-28 at 01:48:36ID: 17199181
Hi
You may need to set the thumb drive in the bios to be the first boot device
I think the IBM thinkpad may have a phoenix bios,
Go to "Advanced BIOS Features".
Go to the "1st Boot device" and set it to "USB-ZIP".
To do this go to the Boot Order screen and select "Harddisk" and hit enter, giving you a list of IDE hard drives -I am not sure how it will list the the thumb, I checked for phoenix and it seems that sometimes this BIOS prefers to call a USB device an IDE harddrive but you will see in the listing
Reboot the PC (Exit the BIOS saving the changes)