I agree with you that it is absolutely ok to install any supported
operating system from a Microsoft or OEM CD and add IBM's drivers later.
Also, I don't believe the stories about "files still being there" after
a complete reinstall. Agreed, the actual file content may still be on
the disk (and can be recovered with the right software), but the
operating system will never go look for it because it keeps track of
where it put its files and doesn't care about what else may be there.
Keeping to rational arguments: You have pretty much excluded a hardware
defect on the Firewire card and drive. So what's left is a
software/driver error or a hardware problem with the ThinkPad. The first
you check by reinstalling the OS or swapping the HDD for another one,
the second by sending the machine in. Which of the two is less painful
depends on your particular situation.
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:22:03 -0500
> From: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card
> withT41?
> To: scosgt@worldnet.att.net, thinkpad@stderr.org
> Message-ID: <Law10-F35mc3NririOC00006a05@hotmail.com>
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> Sorry but I'm not buying that for a moment. Data still there? Sure. But
> I've taken a drive with XP on it and put on Red Hat (FAT32) without a single
> problem. Then put on Longhorn. Then XP Media Center Edition. Then XP.
> Then Red Hat again. Never had a problem on the drive. Was some of the
> "erased" data still there? Maybe at some point but it won't matter.
>
> There's no way you're going to convince me that my XP-supplied 1394 driver
> still happens to be lurking out there and causing me this issue. Know why?
> Because it happened when I had a different hard drive in there too.
>
> So lets just get this off this out of the way, eh? Running the Recovery
> process is NOT the solution this time.
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