[rescue] Problems Replacing Hard Drive in a Thinkpad

[Mike Nicewonger]

Some laptops are absolutely finicky about hard disks. You may have to install
the disk in a desktop machine and load some sort of BIOS fooling software.

Of course it is possible the drive you got from HC is bad.

Mike N

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, you wrote:
> Feeling constrained by a 340 mb drive, I picked up an IBM 2.5" 1GB ide
> drive from Hitech ($29!). Now, though, the Thinkpad is being anoying and
> refusing to see the new disk. If I have it in my DockII, I get a 174
> error. If I have it undocked, easy setup (grr... roms do _not_ need
> GUI's...) simply says there's no hard disk installed. 
> 
> I'm about ready to rip my hair out. Is this drive to big for a 750 to
> understand? Or is there some trick to making it see the drive so that I
> can install OS/2 on it? (It's an OS/2 era Thinkpad... it deserves it...
> ;')
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints, tips, and help.
> 
> William
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