slim drive substitute

[slaird]

Smitty-
OK that makes sense. I don't have a floppy on this machine either, so it doesn't matter. I do know that for the Win XP or most restoration disks you need to have the cd-rom bootable and the HD in master. It seems impossible to do that with the e-pc.

Apparantly, HP has made it so you have to buy a proprietar kit that goes with these machines to use a slim drive. It has a little adapter that fits onto the appropriate slimdrive. So if I bought just the drive from 3rd party, it probably wouldn't work.

UGHHHH.

[smitty308]

Have you checked in the bios to see if you can change the boot order so that the CD will boot first?

Smitty

[slaird]

Yes, but I'm pretty sure that it looks for the cd-rom from the secondary ide cable (the notebook size ide)...

I can get it to boot from the cd-rom if it is ponied with the hard drive and set as the master.

Anyone know where I can get refurbished CD-rom drive for the e-pc 40 for cheap?