Re: 560z & 20Gb HD still a problem!

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From: Voltaire Almendrala (valmen_at_pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 03:31:07 EST

I had the same problem on my old 560Z and here is how I resolved it:

1) Flash the BIOS to latest version
ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/spsdie29.exe

2) Use another laptop (or desktop w/ appropriate IDE adapter) to fdisk & format
the 20GB HD (I used a Win98SE boot disk w/ updated fdisk.exe & format .com
files)
http://technet.microsoft.com

3) Installed the hard drive in the 560Z, used the boot disk to access an
external CD-ROM drive, fdisk'ed & formatted the HD (bootable), copied all the
Win98 SE install files to the HD in a dir called C:\WIN98SE and installed Win98
from there. Make sure you burn a CD or have all the drivers for the 560Z handy -
you'll need it.

Good luck!

-VA

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