Hard Disk in Ultrabay Slim Adapter not seen by computer

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Hard Disk in Ultrabay Slim Adapter not seen by computer

#1 Post by al7kz » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:27 pm

Hi all,

I have a new T42 and new Ultrabay Slim HDD adapter but none of the drives I have tried are seen by the computer either in BIOS or in Disk Manager. Is there something I need to do to activate the adapter? Thanks in advance, Joe
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#2 Post by GomJabbar » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:40 pm

I have a T42 with the same adapter, and I didn't have to do anything extra.

Is your new hard drive partitioned and formatted? Even if it is not, I would still think you could see it in the BIOS.
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#3 Post by pae77 » Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:12 am

Have you tried booting up with both drives in the system? If not, give that a try.
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No go with HD adapter

#4 Post by al7kz » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:06 am

Yes the drive is partitioned and formatted and I tried booting with both drives in. Looks like the motherboard is bad. Thanks for the replies. Edit: am I right in thinking that any drive should work in this adapter, that the drive doesn't have to be on a bios "white-list"?
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#5 Post by turbolium » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:40 am

go to mycomuter (right click) > manage > disk managment and see if anything shows up there if not then something is bad
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no go with adapter

#6 Post by al7kz » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:00 am

Yes I've already checked that via control panel > admin tools > disk management. The drive isn't shown. Thanks
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#7 Post by thibouille27 » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:34 am

Check you didn't deactivate secondary channelon both your IDE controllers.
I don't think so but would still be something to try ...
TP X23 +UBX2 +cdrw
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#8 Post by al7kz » Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:52 pm

Merci bien. Activated second channel in thinkpad configuration - still no joy. Support is sending me a new adapter.
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#9 Post by thibouille27 » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:22 am

Alright, tell us how it goes ...
TP X23 +UBX2 +cdrw
TP X60 +UBX6 +dvdrw slim + floppy + 8cells battery
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#10 Post by al7kz » Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:28 pm

The new adapter works!! I called Lenovo support midday on Saturday and had the new adapter at noon on Wednesday. That's good service. Thanks all, cheers
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