From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 12:44:34 EDT
Just had a 600E that would not recover on a 20 gig hard drive NO MATTER WHAT
I DID
cloned it from a smaller drive. Looks like the drive size is relevent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicky Avery" <nicky_at_wwavs.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Thinkpads and recovery CDs
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> Bruce Markowitz wrote:
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> >I just tried to use a 770/770ED recovery CD on a 770Z. No go, no matter
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> >what
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> >>I do, it just re-boots
> >>
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> All the IBM recovery disks appear to have some kind of BIOS and/or CPU
> sniffer and will only install on the type for which they are intended. A
> 770ED CD works fine on a plain 770 but an Aptiva CD won't work, for
> instance, on a non-Aptiva. I would be surprised if it checks HD
> size/type simply because of the different OE HDs offered on the same
> model but it may vary from model to model. Whatever the CDs do, the
> intention is clearly that they are model-specific.
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> Nicky
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