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hi
about a week ago i tried to boot my T61 and all i got was a blue screen with a message and some numbers i googled the numbers and found the hdd was corrupted,I have bought a brand new Western Digital Scorpion Black SATA 500gb which i have installed and a Windows XP pro disc with sp3 with coa I tried last night to load the XP disc and it wont boot from disc.
i have changed the settings in the bios so it will boot from cd but it still boot and it just end at the blue screen any help greatly recived

Hello and welcome to the Forum

gabbyy56 wrote:i have changed the settings in the bios so it will boot from cd but it still boot and it just end at the blue screen any help greatly recived

Please take a moment and explain yourself more clearly and thoroughly. Are you saying it never boots from CD and is still trying to boot from hard drive?

Make sure F1 BIOS settings---> Config---> SATA is set to "Compatibility" and not "AHCI".

Have you tried pressing "F12" upon startup and checking if your CD/DVD drive shows up in Boot options?

Daniel.