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Big Problem! Thinkpad Harddrives not found...help! lol

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Mundos

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Hey...i have 3 a22m laptops...2 with 20gb and 1 with 12gb drives...

the computer with the 12gb also had double as much ram as one of the ones with 20's, so i decided to swap hd's...so i could charge a premium for the better of the 2 when reselling.

once the harddrives were secure in the other machines, the computers were no longer able to see them...

i tried reseting the bios, tried different combinations between laptops and hd's...(made sure i static discharged)...but then realized i had left the battery in when i did the swap, so im concerned about the possiblity of surging them... that doesn't really make sense though, because when i tried using the 3rd and "working" harddrive in another system i had the same problem...then when i put it back in the "working" laptop, it was no longer working. this time the battery was out and it was unplugged, and i was soooo careful...it was like i was handling a bomb.

i tried using windows install and dos based utilities to find the drive, but nothing seems to be doing the trick...

i'm an experienced repairman, but feel free to make any suggestions regardless of how simple they might be...let's just assume im a total newb.

i figure since they came from a government office there might be some ibm corperate data protection or something crazy like that at work...beats me though.
 
update:

I put one of the hd's out of the a22's into my r40, and i got bluescreen right after post....somehow all 3 of the hd's are euchre'd...

im afraid if i try the hd from the r40 in one of the a22's the same thing might happen to it.
 
Hi, I have changed drives in many Laptops including IBM and never had a real problem. If you have a floppy try a 98se Boot disk and fdisk and format them. Then try the XP install. I have had problems in general with all HDs that were used with XP and such, but never with 98se. Usually after trying every partition/format program I have, I've been able to get them back.

Good Luck, Jim
 
update:

I put one of the hd's out of the a22's into my r40, and i got bluescreen right after post....somehow all 3 of the hd's are euchre'd...

im afraid if i try the hd from the r40 in one of the a22's the same thing might happen to it.

Another Update:

i put the 12GB drive into the r40 and reformatted it...and successfully installed winxp...

so its a problem with the a22m's seeing the drives...not actually dead hd's...what a relief...now i just have to figure out wtf is going on...lol
 
bump...

i really need help guys

ive tried formatting and fdisking the hd in another laptop...works fine in the r40 but none of the a22's see their hd's...

windows install hangs at the beginning so i cant get into repair or anything....

im totally baffled.
 
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