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ThinkPad T42 won't boot from hard drive

post #1 of 3
6/24/08 at 1:05am
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Hi there,
I just bought a ThinkPad T42 from ebay. The laptop appears good, as the initial BIOS shows up. It didn't come with a caddy or hard drive cover, so I ordered a caddy from another ebay store. Got that, inserted in the hard drive in the caddy. Now, the BIOS recognizes the hard drive (i.e the hard drive specs show up in the device information in BIOS), but the OS is never loaded. I just see blinking cursor at the top of the screen indefinitely.

The hard drive is good and has a good Windows XP installation on it, as I can use it in another laptop fine.

Is it possible that the laptop wouldn't load up simply because there wasn't a hard drive cover? I find that hard to believe.

Any suggestions, advice, or help would be appreciated.
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post #2 of 3
6/26/08 at 6:22am
r u saying that u installed a pre-installed XP drive into the system?

cheers ...
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post #3 of 3
8/6/08 at 11:44am
the hard drive cover should not make a difference. Try resetting the bios to its factory defaults and try again.
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