600 HD caddy in 1 Ghz CF-28

Have a 1 Ghz CF-28. Works great, but I bought another one on Ebay without a caddy. Took the drive out of the working 1 G and put in the new 1 G to test. Works great.

Now I have a 600 caddy with fresh hard drive to put back in machine 1.

Bios recognizes hard drive, but when I put in CD recov. #1, it recognizes the CD rom and stops before loading anything else with the following;

"Does not support this model".

I know the comp. is OK, cause I used it for a couple of weeks. The drive caddy from the 600 fit like a glove.

Are the drive cables different?

Any ideas.

 

Gene -

I suspect your issue may be with the recovery disks themselves not supporting your particular machine; I understand there was an "early" Mk3 that was the same MB as the Mk2, and there was a "late" Mk3 that was the "real" Mk3.

Maybe try putting it all into the other 1GHZ machine & recover that way?

mnem
It can't hoit...

 

Thanks M,

I "kinda" thought about that, but had not tried it yet. Just did and no joy. Same message. I have not actually tried to recover either of the 1 G with the panny restore disks anyway, instead I loaded a legit compy of Win XP Pro that works like a champ. I guess it MUST be the disks.

What a conundrum....

 

Well, Gene -

Do you actually know which mark your recovery disks are supposed to be for? It DOES make a difference. TB has posted on that issue several times in the forum...

mnem
Post A, Post B, Post C... now all I need is a post hole digger...

 

Nah, not really. Got the disks with a couple of 600's that have already gone to Ebay heaven.

No worries...

It is very likely that the disks are wrong. I think the key is that when the disks start up they proclaim to be loading Win 98, so they are most likely for the 600??

 

Sounds right... As I recall, the Mk2 & Mk3 mostly came through with Win2K Pro or XP Pro... If they're in good shape & you don't need 'em anymore, I'd suggest putting them on eBay while they're still worth something. The Mk1s are quick becoming a footnote in Toughbook history...

mnem
"When I was a boy, we put a man on the moon... and we did it all with 32 kilobytes of RAM..."

 

If your thinking of possibly getting rid of that 600 caddy let me know I am looking to purchase one.....

 

Gonna let it go with the machine when I put on Ebay. I hate to part 'em out. Prob. worth more that way, but I would rather put up a whole machine...