From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 01:17:02 EST
get into easy setup and the diag section..
run all the tests..
that will give you a place to start in determining where the problem lies..
your FIRST error was buying it from ebay without some sort of guarantee from
the seller..
now you compound this by buying the parts the machine should have come with
initially..
test the floppy drive and the floppy diskette..
test the HDD..
i suggest that you gather up the files needed to boot so the machine can see
the CD..
put them on a floppy and then copy to the HDD..
then set it up to recognise the CD when booting from the HDD..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "d g" <tvvcrcombo_at_yahoo.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 5:05 PM
Subject: 760EL not reading drive A
> Hello!
>
> I am a current Thinkpad 760EL owner. Unfortunately, if
> I can't resolve this problem, I will be a "former"
> Thinkpad 760EL owner. :-(
>
> I bought my 760EL off Ebay. (cringe) It came with a
> 1.44 floppy drive, a 810 mb hard drive, and no
> operating system. (It had Win 95). It boots to the C:/
> prompt. I then purchased a new 8X CD Rom, a 2.1 GB
> Hard drive and a new battery. I also have a Win 98 CD.
> I then found out that I needed a boot disk to install
> the CD, but when I tried using one it kept on giving
> me Data error reading drive A. Is this a problem with
> my hard drive, floppy/cdrom connection or something
> more devious and technical? Any suggestions, other
> than throwing it out? :-) I now know why they named it
> an EL, cuz I'm ready to throw it the 'EL out! haha I
> made a funny.
>
> Anyways, what's my next step?
>
>
>
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