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IBM Thinkpad 320 Will not boot off HDD
Name: Weird Al Jr Date: July 28, 2002 at 20:16:42 Pacific
Comment:
I'm working on a IBM Thinkpad 240 Laptop (Celron 300, 128...) and I cant get it to boot off a hard drive. I have partition formatted and sys'd 2 differnt drives so far, it will not boot off of either. Scan disks fine, updated bios to newwest fine. Changed jumpers / changes bios boot order / set bios defaults. I tryed to boot from a floppy and install windows and it gets a SU0013 cannot write to start up drive make sure it is not NTFS. I'm using FAT32. Even forgetting windows not installing it wont even boot of a sys's drive that when thrown in another laptop boots fine to a dos prompt.
Any idea guys? I am using 98 system files, so fat32 is fine. It did work before I formatted it. I have been to microsoft.com and IBM.com allready.
Name: wawadave Date: July 28, 2002 at 20:49:27 Pacific
Reply:
helo clean the floppy drive read heads have a nice day
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Response Number 2
Name: DTec Date: July 28, 2002 at 21:13:10 Pacific
Reply:
Download a copy of Wipe.exe from IBM's website. Wipe the HDD clean and try reinstalling. Recommend you get a copy of the DFT software too (Drive Fitness Test). Here's the link:
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