The Thinkpad A31P laptop i have will not recognize either of the two good hard drives that I try. It boots to live CD and has no memory problems, but will not find a hard drive for the life of it.
Thi sis an issue about the hard disk itself .. depending on how was formatted.. or the way was connected. you need to go to bios settings and select the hard disk in the devices .. and if there is an ahci function on . you have to disable it . cause without driver will not see the hard disk .. This is nto an issue if you install a windows 7 but for widows xp .. to work and to use it in this way ..(with the sata raid or sata achi ..) you need to run a 3rd party driver when installing the operation system .. or ....
the quick way .. go to bios by pressing F2 on start .. and in there ..disable teh raid or achi for the hard disk (must be in the ide/sata feature.. where you see the devices for ide.. you have a sata .. setting feature too .. Just select it ..and let it run in compatible mode or non raid . or disable achi ..or sata as ide or native .. depending on the BIOS edition it may refer to the same thing in different ways .. The idea is to disable any function for the hard disk that might require a driver to be installed in order to work ..
after that will boot just right if you have an os on it .. or will be needed another installing from a live disk ..(boot-able disk )
Also check the hard disk options ..and see that some have a second setting for a usb ..and remove it and leave the hdd 0 as primary ) ..This is not the boot priority .. but the actual device ..
]Anyway if you set what I said .. and make a factory default before.. (set it to the factory settings first and after that remove the achi or raid settings ..and save with F10 ) ..and will work .
try it and let me know how it worked out..
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