Posted: 8/7/2004 9:09:00 PM EDT
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Well guys I think I fried my hard drive, I woke up in the middle of the night to goto the bathroom and as I was getting up i kicked over a glass of water on my A21m laptop, Dont know what to do I keep trying to reinstall XP but keep getting a operating system not found, hard drive not installed. What should I do? Thanks Justin |
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Before you call IBM download and run the "Drive FItness Test" (DFT). Tech support will make you run it before they do anything else. If your hard drive is not even recognized by the BIOS DFT will not start because it cant find any drives to run against. If your drive is recognized and DFT runs it will complete with an error code. Code 00 means nothing is wrong Anything else is bad If your drive is in fact dead and you convince IBM Tech Support of this, ask them to also send you the factory image cd's that came with your laptop, if you do not have them. I hope you are under warranty. If not, you can get bigger faster cheaper drives elsewhere. IBM parts are so overpriced. |
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