ThinkPad Won't Boot.

[ZaZ]

The hard drive on my ThinkPad failed recently. Lenovo sent me a new one, but I can't get it too boot. After the logo screens it just sits there with the cursor blinking in the upper left corner. I can boot into DOS form a CD and use FDISK so it sees the drive. I have a backup image of the drive from True Image. I restored it and it says it was good, but once again it hangs. Lenovo sent me the recovery discs, but those fail as well although I can boot to the rescue and recovery CD. Orginally when I put the restore CD in it kept trying to boot to the network so I made it so the hard drive the only choice but that failed too. Did I miss something? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Zeitgeist]

Lenovo sent me the recovery discs, but those fail as well although I can boot to the rescue and recovery CD. Orginally when I put the restore CD in it kept trying to boot to the network so I made it so the hard drive the only choice but that failed too.

Try the following:
1. Delete all partitions with fdisk (only delete, no formate)
2. Change the boot order permanently: CD first
3. Insert the R&R boot CD, follow instructions.
4. Be patient: first the service partition will be created and then the system partition from the service partition.

[ZaZ]

Thanks for the reply. When I first did the R&R CD it kept asking for for network backup. Now I did the restore with the backup CDs, but it keeps booting to the R&R screen. How do I get it to boot to Windows?

[padpad]

IMO, you have built the HPA, but didn't restore your computer using its content.

just select the restore to factory contents option in rnr to complete the process.