[pchelpers] Re: Recovery of IBM /Toshiba laptops
- From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: John Durham <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:27:26 -0600
Hi John,
Wouldn't IBM/Lenovo's support site describe how to do this?
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Scott.
Monday, February 16, 2009, 3:37:58 AM, you wrote:
JD> I recently came into possession of several older laptops.Two are 600M
JD> IBM Thinkpads. The difficulty is that the makers put the BIOS on the
JD> hard drive, so by this time it is not too usable. Part of the problem
JD> has been solved already. I bought a couple of CDs (Ultimate Boot CD For
JD> Windows, and IBM drivers CD). They have potential for a fix to this, but
JD> a way needs to be found to transfer the BIOS and boot files to their
JD> places on the laptop drive. It is presumed that specific positioning of
JD> files will be needed to get the system running again.
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