Hi all,
I'm having some problems getting my desktop to read a laptop drive. I had an IBM Thinkpad 560X with a 2.1 gig drive in it. I've been all over the net in forums (IBM shut down their's last November
,I've got about 10 hours into this project and I'm not wealthy enough to shuck out big bucks for data retrieval, so here I am The board in the laptop took a dump awhile back so I bought a 44 to 40 pin converter to get all my stuff onto the desktop. I've been playing with PCs about 16 years/ building and repairing about 8 years, just so you know where I'm at with bios configs, hard drive settings, etc. Here's the skinny: When I boot up the CMOS goes through POST once, recognizes all the drives (including the laptop drive), then goes through POST again. No matter whether I set the drive up for master or slave, or on the primary or secondary IDE I keep getting a " xxxx HDD failure" error (xxxx=whatever physical position I happen to have the laptop drive in at that time). At that point if I press F1 the PC goes through normal startup and works fine. The cables are good (tested both today) and I've tried both auto and user defined settings in the BIOS. The laptop drive has WIN98SE installed as does the desktop (not that it really matters). I got this laptop for a song about 2 years ago because it had no OS installed and the guy didn't have the means to do it. I didn't have a PCMCIA CD-ROM to install with so I went to a friend who built PC's as a side business who had a 40 to 44 pin drive converter. No matter what we did we could not format the drive, so I finally ended up buying the CD-ROM and everything went in without a hitch. Is it possible that IBM has a special partition on this drive that makes it proprietary to working with only a special (Thinkpad) BIOS? or possibly a special pinout config? Any and all advice, experience, guesses are sincerely appreciated!!
I'm having some problems getting my desktop to read a laptop drive. I had an IBM Thinkpad 560X with a 2.1 gig drive in it. I've been all over the net in forums (IBM shut down their's last November
,I've got about 10 hours into this project and I'm not wealthy enough to shuck out big bucks for data retrieval, so here I am The board in the laptop took a dump awhile back so I bought a 44 to 40 pin converter to get all my stuff onto the desktop. I've been playing with PCs about 16 years/ building and repairing about 8 years, just so you know where I'm at with bios configs, hard drive settings, etc. Here's the skinny: When I boot up the CMOS goes through POST once, recognizes all the drives (including the laptop drive), then goes through POST again. No matter whether I set the drive up for master or slave, or on the primary or secondary IDE I keep getting a " xxxx HDD failure" error (xxxx=whatever physical position I happen to have the laptop drive in at that time). At that point if I press F1 the PC goes through normal startup and works fine. The cables are good (tested both today) and I've tried both auto and user defined settings in the BIOS. The laptop drive has WIN98SE installed as does the desktop (not that it really matters). I got this laptop for a song about 2 years ago because it had no OS installed and the guy didn't have the means to do it. I didn't have a PCMCIA CD-ROM to install with so I went to a friend who built PC's as a side business who had a 40 to 44 pin drive converter. No matter what we did we could not format the drive, so I finally ended up buying the CD-ROM and everything went in without a hitch. Is it possible that IBM has a special partition on this drive that makes it proprietary to working with only a special (Thinkpad) BIOS? or possibly a special pinout config? Any and all advice, experience, guesses are sincerely appreciated!!