Re: [Thinkpad] A20 lost its hard drive

Try removing and reseating the drive. It may have slipped out if there is no
screw holding it, or sometimes they get some corrosion on the connector.
DFT won't really help, because it can often detect a bad drive, which won't
answer your question.
Do try removeing the CD/DVD, as that is an IDE device, and it could also be
a badd floppy drive causing the problem, I have seen that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Thomas" <jt@jt-mj.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:15 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] A20 lost its hard drive

> For a friend (who is several hundred miles away...):
>
> Hard drive can't be found on bootup or from a diskette boot.
>
> How do we determine if it's drive or controller? (short of swapping the
> drive, which doesn't appear to be an option)
>
> Is drive fitness test any help beyond doing a dir from a dos prompt? If
> so, is there a download site and how does he make the diskette image?
>
> What do new drives run (10 gig now and probably adequate for projected
> use)?
>
>
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