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[Joseph Davis]

Anyone ever done this?  Thinkpad X60, SanDisk Cruzer 4GB (currently with the U3 shit removed).  I've tried:

- USB Multiboot, didn't do anything
- GRUB via several different installs, BSOD
- reinstalled the U3 crap and ran Universal Customizer so it'd theoretically act like a virtual CDROM, but it did nothing of the sort.

I'm trying USB Multiboot again with a different flavor of Windows, but I'm not terribly hopeful.  Any advice?

[BigGameHit]

is the bios of the thankpad current enough to support USB Booting? i know even with the multiboot setup.... if the bios is not set to support OS booting, it will not..

[dvst8r]

Not sure if this is the same thing or not, but I have backtrack3 that boots from usb. I just mounted the .ISO too the usb Works fine as a bootable drive.

I have a feeling I am missing the point though.

[BoostedSchemes]

i install every windows app including 7 from usb drive, have you used google sucka?
wizard homo you need to format it to ntfs, set as active and primary then mount it and make it bootable using the BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 command in dos
good day you old faggot

ps this is all useless if you have a piece of shit and your usb drive does not show up in bios... its shows up fine on my 4 year old china laptop so you have no excuses outside of being old replaceable and generally full of hot air and semen

[Joseph Davis]

It's an X60, yuriney. 

Google says that XP via thumb doesn't work, but Vista and 7 do.  I need a USB CD drive.

Thanks for being uninformed, though.

[88dx]

haha The Grand Wizard of the Internet Sucks at the Internet 

[BoostedSchemes]

thanks for being uninformed, I installed xp from a usb drive to either corey or jons computer, both post on this site... this was like 3 years ago thanks

[BoostedSchemes]

i googled "install xp from usb"
this was like the first link you old faggot
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=92a5daee7a2af58488c8758b386413ab&showtopic=111406

if you cant make that or anyone of the 99999 identical guides work then you are just fucking stupid and should stick to fucking civics wrecking cars because you are a drunk and ruining your kids life by being a piss poor role model for a fucking hamster

[Joseph Davis]

Again, you fail to understand.  I've been through that writeup, and others.  X60 is a special case.  I can thumb drive Vista or 7 onto it, but it does not take XP.  For XP I need a USB CD drive, and I can probably install over a network.

[BoostedSchemes]

why the fuck is it a special case

this would be like me posting "bmw fails to start" and saying special bmw you fail to understand
and neglecting to mention the niggery under the hood

[Joseph Davis]

Niggery under the hood is right.  Lenovo support forums has a sticky about all the things that cause BSOD on X6 Thinkpads, some of it is quite assinine.  The Thinkwiki also has a list of known good and known bad models of thumbdrive to use on various models of Thinkpad.  Any of the boot disk sites tell you it's still beta technology and shit sometimes doesn't work as advertised.

The good news is that this laptop, wiped and unusable, is worth more than your BMW.  Thanks for playing.

[crttaz]

Niggery under the hood is right.  Lenovo support forums has a sticky about all the things that cause BSOD on X6 Thinkpads, some of it is quite assinine.  The Thinkwiki also has a list of known good and known bad models of thumbdrive to use on various models of Thinkpad.  Any of the boot disk sites tell you it's still beta technology and shit sometimes doesn't work as advertised.

The good news is that this laptop, wiped and unusable, is worth more than your BMW.  Thanks for playing.

No Lenovo JB Porn from JD???

This thread fales!