Thinkpad T20 - Travelstar 40gb internal hard drive - crashes

[cyberfilmmaker]

Hi,

I have installed a TRAVELSTAR 40gb hard drive into my Thinkpad T20.

Windows XP PRO worked fine in the beginning but after a crash and emergency power off I am not able to install and run Windows XP.

Installation is fine. But at a later stage when I try to boot with my hrddrive I get the AN READ DISK ERROR has occurred.

I did a NFT formatting and disk scan in advance. No bad sectors were found.

Is this a Thinkpad series problem or is my drive simply faulty.

Is a BIOS update needed?

Many thanks for sharing your wisdom.

All the best.
CF

[egibbs]

You do have the CD Drive selected as the first item in the boot order, right? Just selecting it at startup won't work becasue it needs to boot from CD a couple times during install

Download PC Doctor from the support site and use the "Full Erase HDD" function - Formatting won't clean out everything.

If that doesn't get it, the drive may be bad.

Ed Gibbs

[cyberfilmmaker]

Hi EGibbs,

many thanks for your reply.

Yes I had the CD DRIVE
selected and I believe the installation was complete.

I shall try it again.Thanks for the PC DOCTOR tip.I have never used it.

The strange thing is that I can still use this drive as an external USB storage drive and write/read files to it.

All the best,
CF

[Mr.Scorpion]

Maybye something wrong with boot sector. Try to fix it from WinXP install CD in console mode: FIXBOOT and FIXMBR

[cyberfilmmaker]

Hi Mr.Scorpion
many thanks. I shall try this as well.

All the best
CF