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    May I boot from PCMCIA on a T61 ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by attonie, Nov 29, 2009.

  1. attonie

    attonie Newbie

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    fmyhr Notebook Geek

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    I have tried booting an R61 and other recent ThinkPads from an external hard drive connected to an eSATA CardBus card: no go. I've not heard of anyone else getting this to work, and believe it is not possible without a customized BIOS. If anyone knows differently, would be very interested to know.
     
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    Lostinlaptopland Notebook Consultant

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    No, It does not work as fmyhr says. At least on my t500, I can boot from USB but I tried it with esata through an expresscard slot and no go, it has a problem with the express card being in the slot when it is restarted, haven't investigated too much though.
     
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