Hello,
I replaced the hard drive in my Lenovo ThinkPad R60e from an Hitachi 70GB 5400RPM SATA drive to a brand new Hitachi 750GB 7200RPM SATA drive and cannot get windows to install. It appears in the BIOS and I have run the HD Diagnostics tool with success. After setting Config in BIOS from ACHI to Compatibility mode, I was able to use my Win7 boot recovery disk to get to a cmd prompt and format the new drive, NTFS. Win 7 does not see the drive. Ran the WinXP setup and it blue screened on restart. When I tried to run the install again, WinXP only sees the 3200MB FAT Partition and cannot even see the NTFS Partition. Lenovo had a firmware update bootable CD which I tried and it does not have any firmware for the new drive. When I tried to drill down to the Win7 setup.exe file it says that the system does not have the installed subset to perform the requested action. I'm certain this is some kind of driver problem but I'm not sure where to go next.
I replaced the hard drive in my Lenovo ThinkPad R60e from an Hitachi 70GB 5400RPM SATA drive to a brand new Hitachi 750GB 7200RPM SATA drive and cannot get windows to install. It appears in the BIOS and I have run the HD Diagnostics tool with success. After setting Config in BIOS from ACHI to Compatibility mode, I was able to use my Win7 boot recovery disk to get to a cmd prompt and format the new drive, NTFS. Win 7 does not see the drive. Ran the WinXP setup and it blue screened on restart. When I tried to run the install again, WinXP only sees the 3200MB FAT Partition and cannot even see the NTFS Partition. Lenovo had a firmware update bootable CD which I tried and it does not have any firmware for the new drive. When I tried to drill down to the Win7 setup.exe file it says that the system does not have the installed subset to perform the requested action. I'm certain this is some kind of driver problem but I'm not sure where to go next.