Hello all,
I received my M200 this Monday and have been finding out how the external USB CD/DVD drive I bought at the same time apparently is not going to boot (Lite-On SOHW-812S DVD+/-RW)...so I read up and tried a PEX network install. When I get to the dialog with the huge warning sign, I press 'C' to confirm a factory install, then my machine reboots and I'm at square one. Unfortunately, I'm not well-versed in MS bat verbage and was hoping if someone knew what exactly is causing the issue?

This is what I did:

1) Copied the contents of the DVD restore onto a folder on my PXE server (my desktop) call the directory <copied image>.

2) Added the following line to config.sys: "shell=a:\command.com /e:1024 /p"

3) Added the following line to autoexec.bat: "MSCDEX /X: /L:Q"

4) Modified <copied image>\bin\recovery.bat. The line "set CDDRV=q:" became "set CDDRV=x:"

6) Followed the steps on http://home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/ to setup PXE server

7) Reboot, PXE into server.

8) Issue "net use x: \\<server hostname>\<copied DVD directory>"

9) Issue "x:\bin\recovery"

10) Get the huge warning message and press 'C' for confirm


I'm trying to reinstall the factory image where the Windows partition is about half the HD so I can install Linux on the other half sometime later.

So what is the easiest way to not use an external DVD drive? Sorry, I've dug through the forums and don't know which way is the easiest? I'm sure modifying recover.bat is the simplest method? Thanks.