Free Laptop Help » ThinkPad Specific http://freelaptophelp.com Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:58:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 IBM ThinkPad R32 will not see CDROM or DVD http://freelaptophelp.com/2010/03/15/ibm-thinkpad-r32-will-not-see-cdrom-or-dvd/ http://freelaptophelp.com/2010/03/15/ibm-thinkpad-r32-will-not-see-cdrom-or-dvd/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:35:02 +0000 admin http://freelaptophelp.com/?p=51 Over the years I’ve seen this 50 – 75 times. A ThinkPad R32 that will not see the CD drive. On any other laptop I’d tell you the CDROM or DVD drive has failed, but the R32 gets a unique problem with the motherboard that causes it to stop recognizing CD drives.

You may find it interesting to know if you pt a floppy drive into the ultrabay the machine will recognize it.

The easiest solution is to simply hook up an external USB DVD drive when needed. You can even get a CDROM enclosure for your old CD/DVD drive from NewEgg for under $20.

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While I know nothing is free in life, I have a question: My issue is this. I have a Thinkpad, T60. The Hard drive has been repartitioned/formatted and I am trying to load XP Pro SP2, however I keep getting “Windows is unable to a find hard drive.” I have pressed F6 to try and load sata drivers, but then it tells me I must have a floppy drive, and guess what, no floppy on this model. I figure the issue is SATA hard drive. The woman I am trying to fix this for has no factory software, or O/S disk and the Restore – Recovery part of hard drive has been wiped out. Is there a work around to get this repair back on track? I live in Raleigh, any help would be greatly appreciated. David

Answer:
Hey there,

It is just a simple setting in the BIOS.

There is a SATA compatibility mode / AHCI setting in there- change it and go ahead and install XP.

After you get XP installed download this utility that will install all of the drivers automatically:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TVSU-UPDATE

=)

How is that for free?

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