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? -AL

Son, are you trying to use Fat32 with win95A?

First thing I'd do is look up and see what the "su0013" error means. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q129971& Are you telling me you have 2 drives that have been "sys'd" and both of these will boot in another laptop, but not in the 240? Does the thing boot at all, like from a floppy or cdrom? Evidently you have been to ibm.com Did it EVER work, or did you just buy it? You obviously have been into the bios, and set the boot order, duuno, starting to sound like a big problem with the system board. By the way, are there any ibm screen errors when it boots?

No Win98, not a fat32 problem i assume. Yeah I have been to microsoft.com and IBM.com, It does boot off a floppy. Yes it DID work previously before I formatted it. No start-up errors. I tried all boot orders.

I have some thinkpads, but not that one. I'd take a REAL close look at whatever connector the thing uses for the HD and make sure you haven't broken or bent any pins. Also, ANY electronic device can just plain break, anytime. One thing i'd try is an alternate method of fdisk and format, maybe find the drive's manf website and look for diagnostic software, and see if you can "see" some weird hidden partion that you somehow added/forgot, etc.