nope.. its not being detected at all...

i tried MBR and gparted also did a dban. MBR looks like its install ing all night long but nothing happens afterwards. then after i restart it cant find the hard drive.. anyone has ideas? im trying to install fresh xp or ubuntu to a working toshiba 100GB hard drive. thanks for the infos but i still ...

91011 wrote:IBM has a Thinkpad MBR repair tool here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62978

I've sucessfully used it a number of times - yesterday, in fact.

John

im trying it. hopefully it works..

richk wrote:Thinkpads use a different master boot record. Mount the disk somewhere and remove partitions.

you mean format it? i've format it with a usb ide/sata cable... how do i install a MBR?

Brad wrote:Welcome to the forum!

What is the error you are referring to?

If your ThinkPad is not recognizing the drive is it possible that the drive is not seated correctly?

Brad

i have pulled the hard drive and put reinserted or several times...

the hard drives are fine.. i've been getting a 2010 error which i know would happen...if its telling me the 2010 error that means it can detect the hard drive right? but when i istall ubuntu or fresh xp.. it can find the darn hard drive to format.. is there any way to fix that ide controller if that...

my t43p hard drive crashed and didnt have a back up of the recovery cd but have the ibm tools backup. now i installed a toshiba 100GB and at first its showing the error (even tried the hitachi 40GB) , then i tried to instal and fresh copy of xp or ubuntu and it says cannot find hard drive to format....