Claypious
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ibm specific partition
I have a laptop installation of XP whose partition was deleted. I was able to restore the partition but when I boot the OS I just end up with a blinking cursor. If I put this drive in a desktop system it will boot fine (aside from the hardware differences) and I can login and see the OS and files I almost lost. Now I just need to get it booting on the laptop again. I have tried XP recovery: chkdsk /p fixmbr fixboot with no luck. I am currently following a possible lead. This is an IBM laptop and I think during my partition troubles I ended up loosing the ibm specific partition that is needed to boot the OS....I have no idea how but I have to try to get that back, any ideas?
Can you provide us with more details on the model number of the notebook, and the disksize? Possibly also the PCs age?
Thanx.
Thanx.
if the HDD works fine on another system, then it's probably a hardware or system configuratoin problem.
try to install windows from scratch on another HDD, I am almost sure it will not work.
P.S. Check the your laptop reconize the HDD correctly.
try to install windows from scratch on another HDD, I am almost sure it will not work.
P.S. Check the your laptop reconize the HDD correctly.
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i checked the configuration and the hard drive is bieng recognized correctly by the laptop and the partition is active. i think the diagnostic partition is the right direction to go I need to go check ibm the web site. this is a T23 thinkpad laptop the hard drive is a 27GB and is model 2647-4MU it think it was made in 2002 and is a PIII 1266.
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this is what I was looking as far as the the ibm specific partition goes. but it turns out to be a problem beyond even that because i still get the same problem after this diag partition is installed. i can't be down for any longer resorting to a clean install
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thanks!
Thanks too.
First, has the partition that is not booting been made active?
When I've worked on IBM laptops (it's been a while), there was a program downloadable from the IBM website that would recreate the IBM diagnostic partition.