The maintenance disk is not for public release for some of the reasons pkiff stated above. Openly distributing it, or any version of it here is I imagine counter to the rules of this board, or at least brings ethical questions to play. I believe nobody on this forum openly distributed these disks. ...

It worked. Thanks a lot pkiff . I've corrected the checksum and updated BIOS. Too bad it didn't help me with my combo. Thanks anyway, it's all I asked for. I'll continue my struggle on my native (Polish) forum ;) You should just be able to hold the switch on the bottom of the laptop while you pull t...

No, your CD drive shouldn't affect any of this, but if you want to verify that, then simply remove your CD drive and then try to use the disk again with nothing installed in your bay. I had difficulties with that and I don't want to damage my laptop. [ Moderator edit: removed link to password hacki...

Thanks al7kz. I've downloaded it, but it didn't help. This time "Unknown exception occured. Setting UUID Checksum... FAILED". When I chose another option - "EEPROM failed". Any suggestions about this EEPROM? Could the source of my problem be the fact that my previous CD-ROM drive was replaced with n...

When I used your HMD and chose "Assign UUID" another error occured - it said I don't have EEPROM installed. I found that EEPROM is, to put it short, old version of a flash memory on which BIOS is stored. Now I'm confused... Does anyone have a clue what to do now? I'm thinking of giving it a break, b...

I was trying to download this Hardware Maintenance Disk, but it seems it's no longer there. Do you know any other location from where it can be downloaded? I'd also like to know if I can use it on my ThinkPad iSeries 1400 model 2611 451. The thing is I was trying to update my BIOS with R01-A7E from ...