I bought a WD Scorpio Black 500 GB drive to replace the old 100 GB drive in my T60. The 500 GB drive was placed in the T60, the 100 GB in an external USB enclosure, and the T60 was booted with a WD Acronis CD. I cloned the 100 GB drive and Acronis offered to allocate the whole 500 GB in one partitio...

There is a working link in this thread: http://www.thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopi ... 29&t=98673

Windows 2000 does not know how to deal with SATA hard drives. Try the link below for instructions on loading the necessary driver.

http://help.wugnet.com/windows2/Windows ... 94433.html

Do you mean the light on the external USB hard drive enclosure flashes red? Most of these USB enclosures come with a cable that has two USB connectors on the end. One of the USB connectors is for extra power only and it has no data contacts. Maybe you are using the wrong connector or maybe the hard ...

Here are a few references I found in a quick search. Save the file into the XLStart folder, which is created when Excel is installed. In Windows XP, this folder is located at C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART. Anytime you open Excel, it automatically opens all...

Wow Ray, that sounds like a lot of work. You can use PS2 to disable the Infra Red port. On the 600X by default the IR port is enabled and the serial port disabled. I need to use the serial port but not the IR port so I use PS2 to set the 600X the way I want it. On the 600E (when I had one) it was ne...

Measure the output voltage of the AC Adapter. It should be 20 volts DC. If that checks ok, remove the battery from the T60 and try to start it with just the AC Adapter plugged in.

This page http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/storage/engli ... /index.htm implies that only the largest drives, 750GB and 1TB are advanced format. I would expect everything else in the list is not advanced format.

The hardware maintenance manual explains how to disassemble the T43. Get it at http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-58791 There is more to the DC input circuitry than the power jack. The system board has a number of fuses on it and one of those might be blo...

I have only used alignment software on an external drive in a USB enclosure. It worked well in that application but I have not used alignment software on a bootable drive. Western Digital's competitors do offer advanced format drives but I have no specific information on their model numbers. A visit...

Western Digital drives smaller than 500GB are not advanced format types. Advanced format drive model numbers end with BPKT while the non advanced format drive model numbers end in BEKT. See the Scorpio selector guide at http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/S ... 701275.pdf

In a nut shell, why avoid the advance function with XP? What if at some future date I will upgrade to latest Windoze? Thanks for the reply. XP does not run well on advanced format drives unles you run alignment software. You didn't say anything about upgrading to a newer OS so it would be easier to...

Hard drives are a standard size dimensionally and the Western Digital drive you referenced is 9.5mm thick so it will fit. 500GB is no problem for the bios in a T60. Since you are using Windows XP, avoid the advanced format drives and pick up the older style instead. At New Egg that is their type num...

You can turn off the wireless from a switch on the front of the T60, leaving Ethernet as your only network connection. To force Wireless only, turn the switch back on and unplug the Ethernet cable. All the routers I know of for home use have a hardware firewall.

Here is an example of a restore operation I did with Acronis WD. A Samsung 40GB hard drive in a Thinkpad 600X was backed up to a WD 1TB Caviar Green hard drive in a USB enclosure. The backup image was then restored from the WD Caviar drive in the USB enclosure to a second Thinkpad 600X containing a ...

I believe that Acronis TrueImage is provided as a download with my fairly recent purchase of a Western Digital Green 2TB WD20EARS HD. I don't know if it includes this feature, though. I believe I have the download saved to one of my computers, but I haven't dabbled with it yet. :| I suspect it's a ...

I use the parallel port on an advanced mini dock to connect my T60 to an HP 920C printer. It works with no problems.

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nVidia Quadro FX 570M
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That's probably because you aren't picky. I have used four Acer LCD monitors and they are all terrible. When I got the first one, I too was happy with it, but after getting used to PVA and IPS monitors, I couldn't tolerate Acer any more. I still have two of these Acer monitors but I let my students...

Hi again, I run all disks again as you told me and again get the error "cant find file: Z:/iubrec.cmd"... i lost hope to get this fixed and install the factory settings... I The discs are all ok. Any ideas... boto Google for Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.16, download it, and run it in scan disk mode to c...

Reset is done with battery removed and AC adapter unplugged. In addition to all the things you removed, take out all the memory and see if you get beep codes indicating no memory. If not and if the unpowered reset does not work it is likely a bad system board.

You can try the Microsoft Windows Installer Cleanup Utility available at http://majorgeeks.com/Windows_Installer_CleanUp_Utility_d4459.html Be advised that Microsoft has removed this utility from their site because it sometimes damages programs other than the target program. That said, I used it to ...

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Your driver is a few revisions old; Version: 11.05.0 API Release Date: 2007/12/12 7kwc50ww After trying a few drivers this one works best for me: 12.04.0000 6HWC05WW 2009/09/11 There are even newer drivers but 13.03 does not support the 3945 and it did not work in my T60 nor in a T61 with a 4965 car...

What version of the Intel Wireless LAN (11abgn, abg, bg) for Windows XP driver are you using?

I have a 600e with a similar problem. The operating system is Windows 2000 and the computer will not boot unless it is warmed up first. Warming up can consist of several boot up tries - eventually it boots all the way up. Oddly if I change to a different hard drive with Windows 98, there is no probl...

The biggest problem I and a whole bunch of other folks have with AntiVir at the moment is that it WILL NOT update. I removed Avira as well but only partly because of the update problem. The number of false positives was way over the top and that was the most objectionable problem. I have lots of pr...

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The chipset in the 600X only allows 256MB per memory slot. 448MB is the correct useable memory for the memory you have installed.