installing a new hard drive in a 600

[hatsgoblue]

I am having trouble installing a new hard drive. I made the disks from the factory and installed the new hard drive but can only get a small display in the middle of the screen. Is there a CD or Disk that will allow me to put in a new hard drive and start over fresh. Format the new drive and install the drivers from the Disk Factory or how do I do this. Help!

[pkiff]

You don't say what version of Windows you have installed, but I assume it is Windows 98? I'm not sure how the "disks from the factory" work or whether you've got the right disks for the job -- I think the "disk factory" only creates a set of floppy disks with outdated versions of the drivers you need. Do you have the original "recovery" CD that came with your ThinkPad 600? Or do you have an original Windows 98/98SE CD?

Regardless, it sounds like you do not have your screen resolution set to 1024x768. Can you start Windows and then go to Control Panel -> Display -> Settings and adjust your screen resolution to 1024x768? If not, then you need to install video drivers. These may or may not be included in the "disk factory" materials you created.

If you end up needing to perform the install manually, you can use the Windows 98 installation information - ThinkPad 600, 770/E/ED provided by IBM/Lenovo.

And in that case, I would use the IBM/Lenovo Software and Device Drivers - ThinkPad 600 page in order to download the most current set of drivers for each piece of hardware -- including in particular, the Windows 98 installation supplement files - ThinkPad 600, 760, 765, 770 (which are needed during the initial install process) as well as the latest video driver (which you can update after installing your basic Windows 98 system).

Phil.

[flybuddy]

You might want to try something like this. You place your new drive in the little cover they give and hook up to a USB with the cable provided. You can then clone your old hard drive, operating system and everything. When you put the new drive in it should boot up normally and (except for running faster) be a transparent conversion. They do provide software but I had some trouble getting it to work properly. At the advice of some of the sharper guys on this forum, I downloaded a free trial version of Acronis easy migrate. Did two laptops with Acronis plus the CMS hardware and it was a piece of cake