Catching up on a mail backlog, and found this thread from last week. I'm surprised that nobody mentioned that you don't need a custom XP CD to boot a T60 - you simply need to go into the BIOS and change the SATA mode from "AHCI" to "Compatibility". This will cause the SATA controller to appear as regular ATA to the OS, allowing an unmodified XP CD to see it. (The same trick applies for recovery or disk management boot CD's that predate SATA, such as older versions of Ghost or TrueImage.)
The downside to this is that there is some performance overhead, so eventually you'll want to switch it back to AHCI, but not before installing the necessary SATA drivers in XP. Herold, Heiko wrote: > After my email I learned about nlite and creating a custom XP CD, with > the Intel Matrix Storage drivers from the Lenovo website integrated, and > managed to boot from cd and chkdsk /r, which managed to restore a > booting system - I got only some temporary files in c:\found.000, > nothing important. ________________________________________________________________________ Delivered using the Free Personal Edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com) _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
