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    Leno T60 - disable HD through bios

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by bionict60, Oct 12, 2007.

  1. bionict60

    bionict60 Newbie

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    It's been a while since I've had to do this, but with the older IBM workstations, you could go into bios and set the bios to hard drive not installed, even if there was one in there.

    With the T60, I don't see a way of disabling the hard drive through bios so that it is not recognized. Does anyone know if this is still possible.
     
    bionict60, Oct 12, 2007
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  2. acaurora

    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Why do you want to disable the hard drive in the BIOS o.0
     
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    bionict60 Newbie

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    It's a way to guarantee that nothing gets written to the hard drive when I've booted off a live cd distro of linux.
     
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    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I dont think you really need to worry about that, but then again its entirely up to you and your personal decisions. I have run Ubuntu off both a LiveCD and installed it on a separate partition without any issues.

    And for me I really dont need to worry because my main partition is NTFS and 7.04 can't write to it. However 7.10 can ;O
     
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    bionict60 Newbie

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    That's a good point, I'll have to check if my version of linux can write to NTFS. If not, that solves the problem right there.
     
    bionict60, Oct 12, 2007
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