My brother owns a old IBM thinkpad 560, Yesterday i put it by a subwoofer and completly destroyed the hard drive:o
This computer has no cd drive, any possible internet connection, or usb. I do Not own a serial or parallel cd drive. It won’t let me boot to the BIOS, so I have no way to format the thing and reload 98.
I was wondering if there is a way to connect this computer to the one i am posting this with now… The one i am using has XP home, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, Infared, and all the normal connections you expect to find on a new laptop. I dont have serial.
What do you mean by “won’t let me boot to the BIOS”? AFAIK, the BIOS boot is what enables one to read the hard drive to boot the OS from the hard drive. If you’re not even seeing the BIOS boot, that’s the first thing to address. Frankly, if the BIOS isn’t booting, I don’t see how you could even tell if the hard disk is operating properly.
If the problem really is that the contents of the hard disk was severely corrupted, but the hardware itself is undamaged, then you probably will need to remove the hard drive, perhaps reformat it, and reload the contents. In your situation, the best bet may well be to invest in an adapter that lets you connect an “internal” drive to a USB port on another computer. (I put internal in quotes, because you’ll need to extract it for the process.) These exist both as bench tools and as cases for external USB drives. Using such a device, you could test, reformat, test, and reload the damaged drive on another machine. Be very careful as to which drive you’re formatting and reloading!
ALL IDE Dirves (AKA ATA, PATA, SATA) are Low Level Formatted when you buy them. Placing a Hard Drive next to a Large Magnetic Force will disrupt this Low Level Formatting.
Before you can even think about reloading an Operating System, you will need to Re-Low Level Format the Drive.
They make adapter kits to connect 44 Conductor Lap Top hard drives to PATA computers with 40 Conductor (Desk Top System). Get One of these Adapters.
Then you can find the Low Level Formatting Software for the HardDrive, and Re-Format it, then a Partitioning and Format of the Partition as a System Drive, maybe with Win98, then Transfer WIN98 Install Images and install from the Hard Drive.
