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I am trying to install XP on a 60G PATA in the ultrabay (T60p), with the primary SATA drive removed. During XP installation, only ~38GB of the PATA drive was visible. XP install was terminated before completion. Questions:

1) Any body tried this for T60p? I did this for other thinkpads before SATA is used.

2) how can I recover the PATA to 60GB? I can only see one partition (~38GB) with Windows Disk Management.

3) how to verify the existence of service partition on the SATA? F11 does not work.

Many thanks

Ron

1. never tried to do that..
what was the source of the XP install..? external CD..? or ???

2. Try FDISK.. try Acronis Disk Director.. the full 60gig (more or less) is there..

3. same as above.. FDISK will show all partitions.. BUT i have not tried to look at the service partition with FDISK.. FDISK is an OLD DOS utility and pretty basic.. it might not even see the SATA drive..

otherwise we come back to Acronis Disk Director.. a super replacement for the now imprisioned.. uhmm, gee i forgot the name.. disk copy..? that was bought up by symantec, killer of great utilities..

Bill

Thanks for your reply.

1) bootable XP Pro SP2 from MSDN was used for the installation. how can one get an XP Pro PATA to boot from the ultrabay?

2) & 3) what are the procedures for using FDISK to recover the 60G PATA drive? I used FDISK to see one partition and delete it but the lost space was not recovered seeing from XP disk management.

Best

Ron

Maybe a raw format is needed to recover the 60G PATA drive (IBM FRU P/N 39T2523, 5400RPM). Any utility/procedures for doing the raw format?

Yes, I would try the one of the tools mentioned in the following thread.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=39219

Hitachi DFT 32_v408_b00 can only see 40GB of the 60G PATA. Here is info. Somehow DFT and XP's disk management think this drive is only ~40G. Any other hints to recover the drive to 60G. Thanks.

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Drive Info
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Model : IC25N040ATCS05-0
Serial no. : F4HXV0HA
Capacity : 40.01 GB
Cache size : 7898 KB
Microcode level : CS4OA61A4I
ATA Compliance : ATA-5

Ultra DMA
Highest mode : 5
Active mode : 5

Settings
Write cache : Enabled
Read look-ahead : Enabled
Auto reassign : Enabled
S.M.A.R.T. operations : Enabled
S.M.A.R.T. status : Good
ABLE : Enabled
ABLE value : 128 (80h)
Security feature : Supported
Password : Not Set
Security mode : Frozen
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Model IC25N040ATCS05-0 is a 40GB drive. What makes you believe this drive is 60GB?

Thanks for pointing it out. I got two disks mixed up.