Hi,
got a old hard disk from T30, unit is long gone, now needs to boot from that hd to see some programs and data, putting it into another non Thinkpad pc, will ask to activate windows, if I put the HD in T420, will it still ask for activation? considering T420 has win 7 OEM. any idea? Thanks,

A.C.

It will be easier if I still have access to a Thinkpad, I can just set the IDE drivers to standard, then restore a image in a VM, and this will work. It does not boot either under safe mode with t30's disk driver installed. of course reinstalling is an option, but it will take longer time and diffic...

I need to boot it as I have to run some programs in that drive. what's the name of standard drivers? thanks.

Hi, My T30 is long gone, left with a drive, got some data in it. I cloned the drive with clonezilla and restored into a VMware virtual machine, during boot, got this XP blue screen: ***STOP: 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE That should be a driver issue, advice from this article, solution #4 is :...