I am working on a IBM laptop, Model:
IBM ThinkPad
T-23 2647-4MU Native O.S., Win 2000
I have been trying to load XP
The hard drive was wiped clean & Partitions deleted.
I have tried a 98 boot disk and cant seem to get it to work for me. for some reason it does not see the Hard drive. Acts like a brand new drive. need some sort of IBM boot disk ??
Any Ideas, Suggestions??
Kurt
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with the windows 98 boot disk did you try fdisk and put a dos partiation on it ?
you could try the windows xp boot disks from this link.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
but windows xp should set up if you boot from cdrom as long as you have the full version and not a upgrade disk.
It no longer see's the Hard Disk present, Normaly 98 Bootdisk works?
Working on that XP boot disk, it wont fit on floppy. mnhgajwehf cj SH__ !!!
what about a USB Drive ??
check to make sure the bios is seeing the hard drive.
to get into the bios of this thinkpad press the f1 key.
Select Startup and then press the Enter key.
Select Boot and then press the Enter key.
The display should list Hard Drive with a plus (+) next to it if the drive is detected by the system BIOS.
I can not see anything on ibm sites that say's it must be booted by their recovery disk only so it should boot from the windows xp disk.
there is however a update for recovery but you need the first version installed on teh machine so this will not help you.
ibm list the install of xp from the cdrom like you would any other computer just tells you where the drivers are on the hard drive however the drive is blank so that little folder will not be there.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.w...MIGR-44842
list of driver downloads for windows xp
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.w...idate=true
if the bios does not see the hard drive remove it from the laptop, check to make sure its seated correcty in its cradle then re-seat it back in the laptop and try again.
if after doing that the bios still does not see the hard drive replace it with a new one or get yourself a 2.5 to 3.5 ide cable and check the drive in a standard pc
Tried all that, Still does not see the Hard drive, put it in my work machine tower with a removeable H.D. Bay and adapter.
I installed a New Segate a couple of years ago and same same. I just does not see it ??
and cant remember the trick. Well, I will go and bang my head against the wall some more.
Thanks for your sugestions and i will get back with you.
Kurt
O.K., This is the Update !!!!!
I went to the Hitachi Site and located some Tec Tools.
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Drive Fitness Test (v4.05)
This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (However, Drive Fitness Test is bundled with some restoration utilities that will overwrite data.)
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
So I guess the drive just Quit, The (DFT) also did not see the drive. I hope I can RMA The drive, The Date of MFG is Feb:04
B-)
Good luck but those 2½" drives usuallly only have a 1 year warranty.
:O UH, bummer. I guess I was still living in 05 world. I guess it's time to wake up now and change the callender.
Thanks for all the help, This site has been good to me. :)~
Kurt
The good news is that 2½" drives are now pretty cheap. Just be careful and make sure yours will take the size of the new ones. Within the last 4 months I tried to purchase a 20GB 2½" HDD and wasn't able to obtain one. Had to get a 40GB HDD instead. Fortunately the BIOS recognised the drive and everything was hunky dorey.
But before anything, check the warranty as I could be wrong on the warranty period. You could also email the support at IBM and ask them what the max size HDD the laptop will support.
Let us know how you get on and thank you for flying Driverzone.:D
Well, I did receive a call back from Hitachi today, This drive does "Not have a serial #" and Hitachi said to contact IBM for Warentee Issues.
I have had good luck in the past, The drive date is Feb/04 But if it ws purchased under a year ago it is still under warentee.
I only got it 8 months ago :D
The way Hitachi new it was an IBM referal was the FRU number on the drive and no serial #
There are lots of 4200 RPM drives on Ebay 20Gb. But you have a great point, What will this laptop support :?
Thanks again for your support, Have a DriverZone Day.
KK