You guys have been great! My T61 has arrived today but i am in a dilemma. I know this is not the most appropriate place to post this but i need an answer soon; i am excited for this laptop!
I ordered a separate hard drive to upgrade into my t61. The only problem is...lenovo did not send me the cd with windows vista so i do not know how to get vista on my new hard drive!...please help.
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well, usually, they put the os on a recovery partition that you can burn onto a dvd. also, you can clone your hard drive with software from acronis (free trial) but you need an external enclosure for that.
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so i can burn my OS onto a dvd from my laptop and then change the hard drives and install the OS onto new hard drive with dvd????
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The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso
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is this called a backup under thinkvantage?
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The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso
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I think i got it...but let me know exactly later so i can be sure.
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Hiii...
The recovery disks i created never worked. So i ordered recovery disks from Lenovo. They both came up with an error when inserting 2nd disk..."No Service Partition"....help please. -
did you format the harddrive before installing it into your laptop?
If not, you can try formatting with fdisk, just run a command prompt, and you can do it through basic dos.
When you install the vista cd, you should be prompted to format the harddrive.
If the harddrive is not recognized, you need to go back to step 1 and see what's wrong.
Does the Bios recognize the new harddrive?
You need to set the bios boot order to boot from cd first, and then boot to harddrive.
I hope this helps, but you should have been able to burn a disc right from the harddrive. You need to make a bootable disc, in order for it to work, so if you burned a normal disc, its not going to work.
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I did not format my hard drive...i simply replaced it with the old one put in the recovery disks. here is what my bios says...
Bios- Boot agent v1.2.45 97-2007
USB FDD- not detected
DVD- no valid OS
USB CD- not detected
ATA HDDO- no valid OS
PCI LAN- no valid OS
USB HDD0- not detected
ATA HDD1- not detected
Help ASAP!
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nolde05, Jul 25, 2008.