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hardrive not seen
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:51 pm
by dsmith
i have a t61p, bought a hard drive for backup, it is a Seagate momentus 60g, i formatted it, the laptop sees it, i can read and write to it, now when i replace my original hd with the seagate, i am downgrading to win xp pro, it says there is no hd installed , tried a few times now, does anybody have any advice on this.
thanks for reading this
david
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:58 pm
by ryengineer
You would need to switch HDD settings from SATA to Compatibility mode in the BIOS.
Re: hardrive not seen
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:54 pm
by bill bolton
dsmith wrote:does anybody have any advice on this.
thanks for reading this
If you are installing a non-Lenovo retail or OEM XP image, you need to download the SATA disk driver from the T61 support page at Lenovo and put it on a USB memory drive stick. Then during the XP install hit the F6 key (I think) when prompted early-on for
additional device drivers.
Later on in the XP installation you will be prompted for the location of the additional device device drivers. Once loaded the SATA disk driver will allow access to the SATA Drive for the rest of the installation process.
Vista has SATA disk drivers as standard in it installation image.
Cheers,
Bill B.
Thanks
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:26 am
by dsmith
Many thanks gentlemen, i changed the bios setting to compatability, and my hd was there. i will also remember to put the sata drivers on my stick.
again Thanks
david
Re: hardrive not seen
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:16 am
by steveg47
bill bolton wrote: If you are installing a non-Lenovo retail or OEM XP image, you need to download the SATA disk driver from the T61 support page at Lenovo and put it on a USB memory drive stick. Then during the XP install hit the F6 key (I think) when prompted early-on for additional device drivers.
Later on in the XP installation you will be prompted for the location of the additional device device drivers. Once loaded the SATA disk driver will allow access to the SATA Drive for the rest of the installation process.
Vista has SATA disk drivers as standard in it installation image.
Cheers,
Bill B.
Bill,
Will an xp install see a USB memory drive stick from F6? Thought xp was limited to floppy.
Vista on the other hand...
Re: hardrive not seen
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:20 pm
by bill bolton
steveg47 wrote:Will an xp install see a USB memory drive stick from F6?
It worked for me when installing a recent retail XP Pro SP2 image on an T60.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:29 pm
by steveg47
How about that. Now I've gotta try that out.