From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 03:21:00 EST
the fellow i mentioned used a fujitsu with a fujitsu utility provided on the
ontrack web site..
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From: "Dominique Pivard" <domi_at_kenavo.fi>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: 18 GB HD on ebay for 701
> OK, I happen to have 1) a TP701, 2) a 18GB Toshiba drive that is formatted
> for a TP600, but not currently in it. So, for the purpose of
> experimentation, I took the 2GB TravelStar out of its caddy and put the
> 18GB Toshiba in it.
>
> The Toshiba has OS/2 boot manager as its first partition and OS/2 Warp 4,
> Win98 and W2K install on it (the W2K boot loader controls both Windows).
>
> When I booted the TP701, I did reach the boot manager menu, which means
> the HD is recognized at least to some extent. However, when I select
> either option on the menu, I get a message "Selected partition is not
> formatted, hit any key". When I press Fn+F1 and page down to page 4, I
> see: "Hard Disk: Not Installed".
>
> So it appears that formatting and partitioning a large drive (18GB) in a
> machine that recognizes such drives (TP600) and putting it into the TP701
> doesn't work. I didn't see the point of trying anything else, since I
> intend to keep what's on the Toshiba.
>
> In any case, with all the respect I have for the TP701, I fail to see what
> sense it makes to put a 18GB drive in it.
>
> -Dominique
>
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 at 11:35 AM you, "Ed Camin" <ecamin_at_advi.net>, said:
>
> >On a desktop, I was able to format a drive on a machine that recognized a
> >large drive. I formated it into two partitions (8 & 2gig) and put it
> >into a machine that the max was 8.2gig. Both partitions are recognized.
> >Maybe it will work on a TP.
>
>
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