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    Using a HD windows can't see

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by visch1, Jan 15, 2009.

  1. visch1

    visch1 Newbie

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    I recently purchased a Thinkpad T60 about 2 1/2 years old with a 80G drive installed. It works well for the limited use I put it through. I just received a 320G Seagate to replace the 80 with. A thing like this used to be simple, just load the OS and continue on with life. Well after XP loads setup it comes back and says there is NO drive located?? I try many times with the same result. I then get out my copy of Disk Director and partition the drive XP can’t see, making C Fat 32 of about 50G. The result is the same, so right now I got into the bios and it’s now running Hard Disk Drive Diagnostic program (on a drive that isn’t there) for about an hour. What my aim is to use the image of the original C drive to the new C, but need to get the image onto another partition of the drive first as I don’t think it’ll work with a UBS connected drive. Any helpful ideas? TIA and BE WELL
     
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    elfroggo Notebook Evangelist

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    XP was very advanced back in the day. Now when all HDDs are SATA you need to either use the BIOS trick mentioned by the previous poster or slipstream your kit with SATA drivers.
     
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    Thank you for the answer that worked right away. I was in the Bios but didn't go the config. route. I have another ? but will start another thread.
    BE WELL.
     
    visch1, Jan 16, 2009
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