ThinkPad T60p and BartPE -Partitions not seen-

[draco2527]

I can not figure it out...

I had a hard time getting the drivers to work in BartPE (went with generic as the Lenovo supplied drivers did not work)

Now I am having problems with the partitions, I can not see ANY of them!! The drivers load fine, I can get an IP so that has been resolved. But I get nothing for the "R&R" or "C:" partitions.

Has anyone had this problem when running BartPE on a T60?

Any help would be appreciated.

[jdhurst]

I don't know about a T60, but any of my BartPE disks will load in any machine I have tried (including servers) and will see the file systems with Explorer. I confess I have not tried partitions. I usually just need to get files.

WRT Network drivers, I always just tell it what driver and Bart loads it. I have to load drivers for IBM machines and for Dell machines, but they seem to work. Sometimes the generic drivers work on older machines but not usually.
... JDH

[WilsonF]

I think that you have to run diskpart from a command line, then select disk=0,
and then run help to figure out how to select the hidden partition and change its attributes

I did this once to restore a partition and occupy the whole disk, but I don't remember exactly how I got there. Diskpart was the only way I could see the hidden partition, though.

[draco2527]

SOLVED!

The new chipset is not part of the "BartPE" build, therefore there are no drivers for the HD controller...

I removed the drivers from the "driver" folder under the T60p; these did not work!!

I had to download the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" for the HD controller...this however DID NOT decompress; due to the fact that it was not "compatible" with my system... ...

SO...I found the same utility but for creating a driver FLOPPY (used when pressing F6 in XP to load missing driver).I tried decompressing the utility but it would not "LOAD". I figured it needed a true "floppy drive" For some reason I did not toss all my floppies and Floppy drive (I trashed all but a few floppies and a drive a few weeks ago!!). I removed the drivers from the floppy drive and installed under the "SCSI" drivers in BartPE...

IT WORKS!!!