How old is the laptop? I suspect your copy of WinXP is older than the laptop
which probably requires SP3. I had this same issue with a Dell M90 laptop.
It might be worth contacting Lenovo and see if they'll send you the initial
install media. Thats what I did with the Dell and it worked out great.
Otherwise maybe take a look on eBay for either an XP Sp3 disk or the original
media for your machine.
IIRC somebody had a magic plan to slip an older disk up to SP3 but I don't
remember how.
-Curt
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:10:45 -0500
From: "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: [MBZ] Lenovo T-61
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Grandson gave me a Lenovo T-61 he used through 4 years of college. No p/w
is available so he said I'll have to wipe the hd and load my own os on it.
My copy of WinXP started loading from a CD but stopped because it could not
find any hd's?
I would guess this is a security feature installed by the university?
Can someone suggest a way to wipe the hd so I can install my copy of winxp?
When I access the boot menu it provides a choice of the following:
1. atapi cdo: matshitadvd ram uj-86
4. ata hddo: fujitsu mh22160bh g1
5. pci lan: iba ge slot 00c8 v124
(enter setup)
After entering BIOS setup utility I get a choice of the following:
config
security
startup
restart
HDD diagnostic program
and then a list of hardware data.
I went to "startup" and changed the order with the cd starting first. That
allowed my winxp disc to boot until it stopped because it could not find the
hd.
The hdd diagnostic program takes one minute per gig. Since the installed os
boots up every time without problems, I didn't run it.
Thanks,
Gerry
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