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Thanks, john, for the quick response!
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, John H. Kim wrote:
> Please excuse the long quotes.
Ditto - though i'll probably excise mercelessly.
> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Ken Manheimer wrote:
>
> > In a few careless moves i may have fouled up my 701CS thinkpad
> > harddisk (710 mb) partitioning so badly that i may have to send the
> ("You're telling me I can make a Thinkpad disk unusable by just
> repartitioning the hard disk with DOS fdisk!?").
We'll see what happens - they're sending a coffin for me to ship my
machine back to them.
> I don't think this is a password problem because I don't use
> passwords on my 701. If it were a password problem, wouldn't
> it ask for a HD password?
Dunno, but the tech support guy was equally dubious about my password
matching theory. Plus, i didn't have any password set, and toggling the
password in the prom configure utility (by booting without the disk)
didn't help, either. I still have a nagging suspicion that it's
something to do with the special provisions for harddisk password
protection. But we may never know...
> > - Is there any way for me to reset the harddisk partition - something
> > i can do to get it online, so i can eg do an 'fdisk /mbr'?
>
> I only had a floppy drive to work with, but like you said, it
> hangs before it even checks the floppy. You might try buying
> a 2.5" IDE adapter and putting the drive on a desktop machine
> and fdisk'ing it from there.
Hmm, perhaps one of the machines around here already has such. I just
don't know about the cabling, etc. (Connectors. I hate connectors.)
> If it's only 1.5 years old, it should still be under warranty.
> Tell them you were repartitioning when the hard disk stopped
> working. When they replace the drive, the new one comes with
> all the original software installed.
It depends on whether they see it as a software or hardware problem.
Software (OS) is not covered very long. There's something to be said
for both sides - i was mucking about with another OS, but then if they
made it unreasonably susceptible, they may just be responsible. We'll
see.
Anyway, thanks again for the info!
ken manheimer klm@cnri.reston.va.us (703) 620-8990 x268