Well I eventually solved the problem described by myself earlier in this thread. It only took me nearly 2 years. As a result of some more problems with my system I again took a long look at the Lenovo site and I came across the Lenovo page http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sites...

Just as a matter of interest could you post the id of the disk that you have got to work - I'm curious - the one that I would desperately like to boot from is HTS726060M9AT00 - its a 60GB 7200 rpm with an IBM part number of 13N6799, although it has a sticker on it which says ASM P/N 13N6806, FRU P/N...

This URL seems to give the list of supported harddisks - http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-41008#changes - You will almost certainly find your disk on this list if you bought it from IBM. All my disks are on the list but if the upgrade fails, as min...

If you right mouse click on the blue (not red) bluetooth icon in the tray do you then see the file transfer options?

You may have the same problem that I have. I have an R52, about 6 months old, and I cannot get it to boot any genuine IBM disk other than the one that it came with. I'm convinced its an issue with the firmware associated with the harddrive but I cannot get any sense out of IBM/Lenovo on this - they ...