I have IBM laptop t 40 model. It has hitachi travelstar  tm hard drive.

model  : IC 25N0ATM09-0 4200 RPM 5V 1 .0A    40GB ATA/IDE 

IBM P/N : 92P6592 ( HITACHI  P/N : 13G1812 ) MLC : H69555

(166383 CYL 16 HEADS 63SEC/T

78.140.160 LBA

It does not boot from hard drive. Before Re-Download the Xp, Reformatted. Still it does not reboot from the hard drive. But it boots from the cd.

I tried to check the hard drive through its pc soft ware. Two times it gave me ccc error. Is this meaning the hard drive is corrupted??

 I am trying to reformat the hard drive with the Hitachi software if it corrects the ccc error and will able to reboot from hard drive.

Appreciated.

 

It give this messages;

Existing Intel Boot Agent

Operating System Not Found.

you can go to bios setup and try to check the hard drive or do surface scan and find if the hard drive is corrupted. try

I think the hard drive is. When I ran the pc doc and it gave me two errors. CCC errors.

Can I recorrect running the hitachi formatter?

You can try with hitachi formatter but looks like The MBR of your hard disk is pointing to a Primary Partation which has no Operating system.

 

It is not a big problem. there are number of ways you can solve the Problem.

1) If you know the linux installing .. upon installing , you will get option to create a new partaion, and delete the existing partation. You can create FAT32 file system partation too . Create one partaion and install the windows 98 not the XP on that FAT32 partation.

2) There are many third party too that is helpful for low level formatting .. I can't remember the name of there is one with Norton AntiVirus emergency start up floopy disk. Use that one and create a partation and use 98 windows installation and then XP

3) Try to install 98 or MS DOS OS after using it formatting utilites and install XP later.

 

Hope .it helps you

 

I was thinking of as Aaloojsto. But it does not have floppy drive so I thought if I could format using Hitachi formatting software so if any bad sector it has may be corrected.

With the given information if you provide me the download web I will like to try that too before I buy a hard drive.  A little knowledge sometimes brings headache, in past my desktop Maxtor hard drive got bad sector, formatted with its software, this time I could figure out. Thanks.

 

 

if it produces some sorts of big sound than its gone either you can insert bootable disk of any operating system and format everthing off hardrive. than it should work.

If OS is not found, the problem may have  been occurred on ARC path in the boot.ini file.
Assuming that your system has only one hard drive and the OS is going to be installed in the first partition , check in the boot.ini file if ARC path is listed correctly as follows:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows
[operating system]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Microsoft Windows XP

Where, multi(0) is IDE disk controller, disk(0) is first disk, partition(1)
is first partition, and Windows is system root folder.

Here is the link for how to check or edit boot.ini file:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311578

Let me know should you have any question.
Good Luck!

Thank you all.

It does not have floppy drive, facing trouble to fromat with Win 98. Downloaded the Win98 setup disk on CD as well on usb. It does not read either. While redownloading WinXp I tried to deleted  the partioned but could not. Last resort is to format with Hitachi formatter but I could not find it. I quit  and bought a hard drive that was pulled from T 40 and hoping it will work.