Thinkpad x24 - no floppy - no cd-rom

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alidabiri

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hi,
i have a thinkpad x24 with no floppy or cd-rom drive. it has a 20GB hard drive and a couple of usb ports. i'm trying to boot this laptop and install windows on it. any ideas how to boot this thing?
thanks.
 
dude,
in order for a usb device to be recognized by the machine, it has to have an operating system, since usb is not native to bios like floppy. so, without an os, i doubted you can get a machine to boot from a usb device. i may be wrong.
 
tuant,
thanks for the suggestions. i did have a usb cd-rom drive with double mode (int-ext) i hooked it up. at first try, it didn't boot, but when i tried ext mode, it booted right up. thanks for your help. i guess i was wrong. somehow, the bios recognized it on this machine.
thanks again.
cheers.
 
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