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| 107094 | 2002-12-18 00:51:00 | I had decided after three years it was time to reformat my laptop and reinstall the original software. Using the recovery disk supplied with the laptop (IBM thinkpad), I have tried several times without success. Each time after select english language section I am prompted to insert the recovery CD and press enter - yet the CD is already in the drive!! Pressing enter simply rewards with a message (after a while) telling me: CDR101: Not ready reading drive Z = abort, retry, fail? - please help!!! |
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| 107095 | 2002-12-18 01:05:00 | I would guess that this problem is spefic to your model. Have you tried the IBM website? BTW If you handle is Format and you had kids - they'd be re-format too! :D :D :D |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 107096 | 2002-12-18 01:56:00 | Thanks, I tried their website but to know avail, I spoke to IBM and the guy confused me after talking about using Fdisk...- help !! | Format (2801) | ||
| 107097 | 2002-12-18 02:01:00 | FDisk is for Partitioning your Hard Drive (A virtual split in two, giving you the effect of two HDD's). Try it again, but if they mention that, tell them you dont want your drive partitioned. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 107098 | 2002-12-18 02:34:00 | Some laptop drive have to be partitioned to store the bios etc. IBM help desk should be able to talk you through preparing the hard drive to take the re-installation. | crozier (2004) | ||
| 107099 | 2002-12-18 02:45:00 | I suspect that the recovery CD (or the drive) may be faulty. That's what the error message indicates. Try reading another CD. Try looking at that CD in another computer (not booting from it :D). Make sure that you can get access to the recovery CD (or an OS installation CD) before you do anything catastrophic. FDISK is not a bad idea ... that makes it clear that you want to format it after you have deleted then created the single partition. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 107100 | 2002-12-18 03:02:00 | > Some laptop drive have to be partitioned to store the > bios etc. IBM help desk should be able to talk you > through preparing the hard drive to take the > re-installation. I guess that's prolly true, only with some IBM Laptops Ive been setting up lately, I simply delete the partition that has the extra BIOS stuff on it. Works fine! |
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