[pchelpers] Re: Recovery of IBM /Toshiba laptops

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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