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following on from my previous thread
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 441#192441

I seem to have a problem now I've rebuilt my 600x. I've inserted a 20gb IBM hard drive from one of my older notebooks (so I know it works), but I can't get the notebook to see it, can't see a hard drive setup / config screen in the bios. Any idea what I need to do to get my hard drive to work?

Any idea, thanks.

What type of "older notebook".

A P2-333 Mitac 6030 (I think). It worked fine in that.

When you turn on the 600 you have to press f1 to enter in the bios set up from there you can change the boot order.

Boot from the cd drive with the OS cd in cd drive.

Assuming you have a standard IDE laptop drive, install it in your 600X, boot into BIOS, click the Config option, then click the Initialize button and finally the OK button. This should allow your system to "see" your drive. However, if there is a bootable operating system on it, you will no doubt, receive many errors/warnings because of the new hardware it detects. If you are attempting to use the OS that is already on the drive in your 600X then you might run into problems. Best course of action is to re-format the drive and do a clean install of the OS.

Failure to boot to the hard drive OS can mean that there is a problem or incompatibility with the boot track between the older system and the 600X. Again, the solution is the same; re-format and install a fresh copy of the operating system.

Yep tried the initiase option, but still get the get I9990305 error when I try and boot from it. I can boot Ubuntu on a live CD but it can't see or boot from, that hard drive.

ray,

Again, the solution is the same; re-format and install a fresh copy of the operating system.

This should get you going again, swapping drives seldom lends itself to a bootable OS, for instance I can't pull the drive from my t30 and stick in in my t42 (and vice versa) and have it boot windows.

Arr ya I realise I just can't swap drives and have it boot up (well not windows anyway, Linux will!) but to have it just start up would please me, I can reinstall an os no problem, but it appears its not even powering up, I hear no sound from the hard drive, I've just tried another drive, same problem, doens't appear to be power to the drive. hum.....

Are you sure that it is seated properly? You might have to remove it and reseat it....making sure that the pins aren't bent.

I thought I had pushed it in properly, but it looks like I was being a bit girly with it and didn't put enough preasure on it. So ya got it fired up now, all working great.

Again thanks a lot (I guess that's 2 drinks now a!? ).