Thinkpad T43p - Hard Drive Upgrade Problems - Help?

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bmak · #1 Post by **bmak** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:51 am

Hello,

I am new to the Thinkpad having spent years with other manufacturer's machines.

The T43P I have has a 60GB hard drive and I want to upgrade this to a Toshiba 100GB (model MK1032GAX) drive. Have copied all the preload files (without starting the machine) to the new drive and installed.

Problem 1: the machine starts it's BIOS hard drive protection system and tells me that it may not work with this drive (have checked with IBM and can not find the page which lists acceptable drives).

Problem 2: I choose ESC and the system carries on attempting to boot. Next I get a "No Operating System" error.

It may be that the system is controlling this or it may be that I have to find a way to re-write the Master Boot Record on the new drive.

Question: Should I be able to upgrade the hard drive without this much fuss? None of the other laptops I have owned ever gave me this much hassle to upgrade.

Thanks for your help with this folks. It's pretty urgent.

bmak

FTC · #2 Post by **FTC** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:15 am

Hi,

Yes, the hard disk swap should work, although you may not be able to remove the boot message stating that this is not a supported drive...
Your problems may be due to the fact that you don't have an active, startable partition, or that your master boot record does not have boot code (which is normally installed when you install a startable operating system in that disk).
You'd usually mark partitions and so from the 'computer management' program, within control panel => Admin tools, but of course you can not boot, so ... as an easy fix, I'd recommend you get a DOS/WIN98 boot floppy with FDISK inside and mark partition as active / startable, plus run the command 'FDISK /MBR', You can also use any of the third party proggies that manage partitions such as partition magic.... to do the same.

bmak · #3 Post by **bmak** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:25 am

FTC wrote:Hi,

Yes, the hard disk swap should work, although you may not be able to remove the boot message stating that this is not a supported drive...
Your problems may be due to the fact that you don't have an active, startable partition, or that your master boot record does not have boot code (which is normally installed when you install a startable operating system in that disk).
You'd usually mark partitions and so from the 'computer management' program, within control panel => Admin tools, but of course you can not boot, so ... as an easy fix, I'd recommend you get a DOS/WIN98 boot floppy with FDISK inside and mark partition as active / startable, plus run the command 'FDISK /MBR', You can also use any of the third party proggies that manage partitions such as partition magic.... to do the same.

Hey, thanks for the very speedy response FTC, I was unsure if it was a standard MBR related problem or if there was something "squirrely" about the Thinkpad's hard drive control of which i was not aware.

Am I right in thinking that, if it has a problem at boot with the drive, the hard drive support and safety system probably won't work either (in which case I could get rid of the message by turning the system off in the BIOS)?

Tanx

nrj45 · #4 Post by **nrj45** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:50 am

I have the same disk. It works but with the 2010 msg. I didn't find anything in the bios to disable this msg.

bmak · #5 Post by **bmak** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:41 am

Hi,

Does anyone know how to either resolve or remove the error I get during startup "Error 2010: Your hard drive may not function correctly on this system. Ensure your hard drive is supported on this system" (this is paraphrased).

It has developed as a result of a HDD upgrade (new drive is a Toshiba 100GB (model MK1032GAX)). And seems to be a popular question in this group.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Tanx

Lzc · #6 Post by **Lzc** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:38 am

degrade bios to 1.02 version is ok or you should upgarde your hard driver's firmware.

keku · #7 Post by **keku** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:07 am

BIOS V 1.03 is the last version that will not kick 2010 warning msg. There has been no significant changes in BIOS since 1.03.

mysbca · #8 Post by **mysbca** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:09 pm

See this sticky for more info on using non-Thinkpad option harddrives on T43's:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=11059

nirvana0001 · #9 Post by **nirvana0001** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:30 pm

is it 7k100? does it warm? I am interesting how much was it cost.