Scared0o0Rabbit
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I've got an ibm thinkpad (770x) sitting here... it doesn't like discs in it's drive. You put a cd in and it's got about a 5% chance of working. I actually managed to get 2k installed on it last night (only cd I've managed to get it to read in a few months). I've looked into actual ibm replacement drives but I'm not going to pay $80 for a cd-rom or $200 for the exact same drive... which leaves me looking for suggestions. It's got a usb port I could use for a drive, however if I do that will it be able to boot off that if I need to install a new OS? I'm just looking for suggestions on what to do... cause as of right now I can't get it to take the cd's with my network card drivers on it (either my wired or my wireless one) so I'm pretty much stuck as to what I can do to get this thing going.