IBM ThinkPad 1400

[medo]

Hello,

I am writing this to earn one point and to warn you of possible problems with the recovery disk for IBM ThinkPad 1400. I bought that peace of machinery (second hand) and upgraded the bios and changed the size of the first partition and since then I am not able to use my recovery CD. The ThinkPad itself doing fine.
It boots itself fine, asks all the questions and starts doing (pretending) the recovery procedure and … after half an hour it comes the statement – recovery procedure failed. I went so far and borrowed another recovery CD but no joy. I sent nice and polite e-mails to IBM but after two weeks – no reply. In reality I do not need that recovery CD but it is really nice to have a useless IBM CD especially when you are away from home.


Medo

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[socalgal]

Any recovery yet, Medo?

Thanks for the possible heads up. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[welsh wizard]

Medo have youy tried the the IBM download site for the patch.
Creat a profile for your system and then doe a downloads All on the model.
WW

[medo]

Hello,

Thanks Socalgal and WW http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.
Yes, I went and searched the IBM site and I couldn’t find anything related to the problem and the only reasonable conclusion (for me) after all – the Recovery CD corresponds only with its original BIOS. Well, I can understand IBM – the average user won’t upgrade the BIOS (every few months), but it will be also correct to mention a problem like this (if they are aware of it). The site itself is very good, with plenty of downloads.
This theory of mine is not 100% sure because I couldn’t ghost C drive with version 6.0 (Standard/Enterprise). This occurred with FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions. It started, but it went in a circle at the very first sector of HD (like it has a controller problem). Version 5.1d (Personal Edition) did the job without any problem. Everything is somehow related with the BIOS and HD.
On the very end I ghosted my c: and burned the CD so I have a recovery CD of my own.

Medo

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