So I found a old IBM T23 Thinkpad at a local yard sale for a bargin, and I bought it. When I got home, I saw that it was installing windows xp, but can not install properly, so it would just shut off. The laptop only had a floppy drive, so I gave it to a friend to format the harddrive for me, while I bought a dvd rom from ebay to install OS.
So I get the laptop back with a blank HD, and get the dvd rom in mail, but when I try to install windows xp, it says that windows can not detect a harddrive. No matter what I try, I can not install anything because most things because it either says “No OS installed in system”, or if I manage to run DOS from a floppy, it gives me “program can not be run from DOS”.
I’m pretty desperate to fix this problem. Anyone have any sort of solution? Are there any programs that maybe can try to detect the harddrive and boot without an OS? Please help me solve this problem. I really wanna try to save this harddrive before considering on ordering another one.
