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The T40 has 1 large flaw the right side with drives only has 1 srew between CD\RW and HDD openings. If you are right handed you tend to pick up if open by the right corner of palmrest by logo. Once that begins to flex the drive begins to flex planar and typically a solder joint becomes loose. The AT...

Thanks for the links but the error Is a Predesktop error and again setting it from normal to disabled the error stops and the sytem boots normal.

At this point I think it is a possible bug in the last embedded controller update

In a previous post I mentioned it in regard to cloning and no one mentioned the error. I do know what the HMM states about the error. I do not want to delete the HPA as everyone keeps saying, I am using The Legal OEM IBM Preload of WinXP Pro and Office. Which allows move drive to mulitple T40 shells...

has anyone else seen this???

My objective is copy drives with both partitions working perfectly. Just want to save time. I even have a UDMA IDE hdd duplicator that is unable to accomplish.

I am hoping to find a trick that does not require me to use the Recovery CD's to put thee HPA in place. loading the CD's and getting windows functioning before I clone is time consuming the only TIDBIT ibm shares about Ghost is to use IA or IB. This has not worked either. I will be so annoyed if I f...

Would someone who had sucesfully done this please post ALL details of how they did this copying the HPA intact without using recovery cd's to put HPA in Place. Ex: Imaging software incl ver and build, new drive location usb 2nd hdd bay primary. Security in bios for Predesktop area Disabled or Normal...

altough I have heard it it can be cloned have seen exact details on how app usb ect... The process I use is as follows: install new untouched drive run recovery cds supplied by IBM not build app. ** I would like All details if any one can share*** Unless someone can confirm the HPA has nothing to do...

Any body seen 1810 predesktop area error cloning upgrading HDD on t40 series?
I have to replace 14 drives.
The predesktop area is ther but IBM supp has no clue what triggers it. Since its Pheonix makes it. Any body clone a T43 drive including HPA succesfully? if so how?