A22p Hard Drive fix/replace???

[Mo]

I have a ThinkPad A22P (2629UVU), w/32GB HD and 1GB memory. This unit was serviced several times by IBM while still under warranty (warranty now deceased). The HD began acting up again, so I tried to run the “Recover” CD on it. That didn’t work. I had an “IBM AVI/BIOS/DIAG” (V 1:20) CD which I was able to boot to, so using this I reformatted the HD. Then I re-ran the Recovery CD. Now at boot-up (to HD), I get a message “…2000 could not start. File missing/corrupt <Windows2000Root>\System 32\NTOSKRNL.EXE…replace this file...”. I have tried the A22p Emergency Book disks, tried loading/running 98 OS CD’s with no success.

I am not opposed to replacing the original HD. I have seen “ZipZoomFly.com” referenced here, but don’t what is compatible or how to “do it”.

HELP…Please…..Frustrated

[JHEM]

First thing to do would be to download and run the Drive Fitness Test from the Hitachi website.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

This will give you a definitive answer as to the condition of your HD, but the symptoms would certainly lead me to believe that it's giving up the ghost.

As to the "how" of changing the HD, it's simplicity itself.

http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-45987

Zipzoomfly.com is my preferred seller of HDs and any of the new 40Gb and larger HDs will work just fine in your system.

Regards,

James

[Mo]

First thing to do would be to download and run the Drive Fitness Test from the Hitachi website. This will give you a definitive answer as to the condition of your HD, but the symptoms would certainly lead me to believe that it's giving up the ghost.

Regards,

James

Thanks James, did the above but that didn't return any errors and the IBM diag disk didn't either....board???

When trying to load W98 I get message: "Standard Mode Fault oustide of MS DOS Extender" (???). This was done with/with out ram installed.

Is there any way "I" can "check" the board, or is there anything esle "I" can/should do (be nice, now).

[sickofit]

I bet if you fixed the Master Boot record,and made up a new partition,all would be well......Use a 98 boot disk...boot with no cd support...at the A:\ type fdisk /mbr that will write a new boot record....then type fdisk,and delete all the partitions,then make one primary one and make it active....ESC back to main screen type Restart....start without CD support again...at the prompt type format c: and format it.....now try and boot with either 98 or your recovery CD's.....would be best if you had a XP install cd....go to repair when setup first starts,type fixboot to write a new master boot record....diskpart lets you manage partitions(delete,make new)...and format c: /fs/ntfs to format C: drive using NTFS....

Hope this helps....

Later...

Greg St.L