Hi all!

[cubancigar11]

Hi all!

I am residing in Germany, and I bought a brand new laptop in flohmarkt: IBM Thinkpad. "560x" is written near the lights, and it has currently no CD drive, no floppy drive, and it asks for driver for a USB disk :)

So I found you guys from Google.... hopefully you will get it correct...

[Aposke]

welcome to the forums!

Sorry, I kinda don't understand your post, do you want to get some information about the IBM Thinkpad 560 or what did you mean with "hopefully you will get it correct"?

[cubancigar11]

Sorry, english is not my first language :(

It should probably be: hopefully you will get it corrected

[Yzzerdd]

Welcome to the forums! Sounds like you are in quite the pickle with that drive. Adding a CD drive or floppy may help. If you need to load drivers for it to be able to access a network or recognize a drive, and are desperate to do so, you could get an external 2.5" drive case, USB. That would allow you to connect the drive to a USB computer via the USB port. Load the driver onto the drive, then stick it back into the laptop internally. Load the drivers from there, and boom! You have a machine that can talk to other computers. As for the extra 2.5" external USB case? Buy a 100GB HDD and use it as your backup drive, or for large files between computers.

--Ryan

[Terry Yager]

Does it have a PCMCIA slot?

--T

[cubancigar11]

It has two PCMCIA slots. I also have a LAN card to fit in there, but I don't have many cables. So, I don't really know if it works or not. It also has a Infrared port, but I cannot find any other device with IR too.

[Terry Yager]

You can find PCMCIA drive cards (both mechanical & solid-state) on e*ay pretty cheap. Use another computer to place the s/w onto the PC Card, then transfer to the TP.

--T

[rachael24]

Just wanted to say welcome to the forum, and I look forward to chatting with you!

[penguin86]

@cubancigar11: Wellcome! Have you tryed to boot throught LAN?
@charmayne: Welcome! What kind of laptop?