Re: [Thinkpad] 380ED Win98 New HD woes

80 gig might be too large for that machine's bios.

Try a smaller drive in the laptop, fdisk, and start anew.

Matt

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From: <elw@stderr.org>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [Fwd: 380ED Win98 New HD woes] (fwd)

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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:50:22 -0600
> From: Chris Schumann <chris@idlelion.net>
> To: elw@stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [Fwd: 380ED Win98 New HD woes] (fwd)
>
> It's likely a drive geometry issue. Older ThinkPads use a different drive
> geometry so the partition you made on the other machine confuses the
ThinkPad
> and it won't recognize that partition.
>
> You should be able to just remove all partitions on the other machine and
boot
> a CD or floppy while the hard drive is in place in the 380ED. If you can't
do
> that, something is configured wrong or broken.
>
> Chris
>
> > From: Mike Warren <darkwood@dccnet.com>
>
> > I ended up with a crashed 380ED. I put a new HD in it (80GB). The bios
> > is the latest from the IBM site. I couldn't get it to boot from
> > anything with the HD installed, so I took it back out & installed Win98
> > on the drive with the HD plugged into a desktop. When I turn it on, it
does
> > the mem
> > test, then goes to a blank screen with a cursor flashing in the upper
> > left. The test in the Bios config worked fine.
> >
> > Has anyone dealt with this problem before?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mike
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