robert213 I have just bought a t41, is there any way to get my t30 hard drive to work with the help of this machine?

Robert It does not show the hard drive. The list in the Bios is- Bios version 2.10 Bios date 2006 06 16 System serial number 2366 88g System board CPU type CPU speed Installed memory UUID MAC address I also did not get (2) Reinstall hidden partition [y/n] this time. It did the first tme I tried it b...

Neil I tried pressing F11 at the boot up but nothing happens, the screen says press F1 or F12.

Right guys, while I'm waiting for my HDD to arrive I thought I,d try and revive my old HDD so downloaded DBAN and ran that. It did a clean wipe of the drive so I put the recovery discs in all three went through ok but on the last one it says remove disc from computer and press enter. Then a black sc...

robert213, I bought my laptop from ebay an ex corporate machine with no F11 option.
So what is my best option of using the hard drive thats on the way to me now. Booting to CD and running the recovery discs wont work?

Harryc Thanks for that, I will give a go and post back.

pete

My old hard disk died so I bought a used formatted one of ebay (Don't know what sort of laptop it came from) I have a set of recovery discs. So my question is can I just plug it in and boot up in F12 and change the boot to CD then use the discs to install everything? Or can you put me right on what ...