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I tried something different to get my 380-Z to read the 40GB HDD. BTW this is a Hitachi 40GB HDD (HTS548040M9AT00) would that make any difference? Like I said I have updated this CMOS to the latest I could find on the Lenovo Website. I loaded the OS (Windows 2000 Pro) on the drive by adapting it to my Sony VAIO PCV-RX370DS Desktop and it loads fine and boots fine but as soon as I put the drive back in the Laptop has the same error of “A Disk Read Error Press Ctrl+ALT+Del to restart”. It checks out and it recognized fine in the CMOS on the laptop and on other computers. So I would say this is not a bad drive, any other ideas? This Laptop model number is 2635-JCU with P-II 300 MHz processor and 64MB of RAM. Seems this system does not want to read over 12GB HDD size, I would Not begin to know why. Any Ideas would be helpful.



Larry (Perplexed ThinkPad 380-Z Owner)

TexRodeo@carolina.rr.com

Try a firmware update on the hard drive.

Firmware Update

Harry,

That didnt work, But Nice thought! Any Other ideas?

Larry

you must load the operating systim from the computer it will be running in. when you do it from different computer chip sets, you run into problems. check your bios, and make shure you have it set to boot from hard drive first. be prepared to load the operating systim IN the 380z. you may have to re-format also. use the floopy start up disk. no problems that way. adrian

my reply continued...........

Read my first reply to your first question.......lol.