Thinkpad E430 2100: Detection Error on HDD0 (Main HD)

Hello lynn.
this pC is F1
key power on, hammer F1 see bios screen now.
this must work or PC is dead
then click startup tab.
then see 14 boot devices there.
HDD0 must be there or the HDD 0 is dead.
the HDD0: wd12345at , the wd name is makers name of drive if the info after : colon is missing that Is a dead HDD.

double posted

any random PC will do that when the HDD is bad
you double posted why? this post has more words
but my guess is the PC failed to boot windows
and then went to the F1 BIOS startups screen
it had 2 choices, boot or if no boots found show F1.
so it did.
and then you click startup tab below and HDD0 is missing.




this is your PC with a dead HDD0. if there are on words to the right
like seen at HDD2, that means the HDD0 is DEAD drive.
or missing or unplugged. if can't hear it spin that to is a dead drive. HDD0:

It is telling you that there is a problem with your hard drive. If you know how to get to your bios screen and have a recovery CD you should be able to restore it. That is IF the hard drive is in fact not defective. Otherwise you will need to to take it to someone who does computer repair and either let them replace the hard drive or depending on your ability do so yourself or purchase another laptop

Please try re-seating the hard drive.

If you look at the bottom of your laptop, along the edge there should be a screw larger then all the rest which holds a small panel. Remove this screw and panel. Remove the drive pulling lightly, with steady pressure, straight out. Place the drive back in and screw the panel back.

We had a lot of these issues, and they were often solved by just this manner alone.

Let us know if we have to go any further.
Good luck

Intel Bios update information states these as supported functionality:

1. 8 * DIMMs DDRII-400 2. Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor with 667MHz/800MHz system bus speed. 3. Multi-boot support. 4. System Flash BIOS ROM 5. COMA/COMB port 6. CD-ROM boot 7. Floppy port 8. PCI 33/66, PCI-X 66/100/133 mode 1, PCI-E x 4, PCI-E x 8, PCI-X 66/100/133 mode 2 slots 9. ATI* Rage* XL VGA 10. Serial ATA 13. Clear CMOS 14. Legacy Power button 15. ACPI S0/S1/S4/S5 15. Setup screen 16. Summary screen during POST 17. Legacy USB keyboard / mouse / Floppy / CDROM / HD 18. ARM (ATAPI Removable Media) / IRM (IDE Removable Media) 19. Custom CMOS load/save 20. BIOS recovery 21. Intel Platform Security 22. Intel Server Management 23. LSI 53C1030 dual channel SCSI 25. Customer CMOS backup/restore 26. IMT support 27. User Binary feature 28. SERR/MERR detection & logging for runtime 29. Int15 for ABS2.0 30. ACPI SPCR (Serial Port Console Redirection) 31. NMI detection for PERR/SERR 32. Rolling BIOS 33. SOL (Serial On Lan) 34. Multi-disk Recovery Item number 23 is this lsi chip: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/SCSI/LSI53C1030/lsi53c1030_pb.pdf

You should locate that chip on the board, The information in the bios update functionality lists that as being functional; however I'm not certain if they mean you can put that lsi chip on professionally or if its there and you would just need to populate the connector to use it. I'm not sure if a bios update is required, they didn't mention that in any of the actual features added to the update, and they say that if updating the bios doesn't fix something, then you shouldn't attempt to update it anyway.

But a whole other issue is whether or not you should physically solder in a new connector or do you mean populated as in a wire is not plugged into a connector and going to a scsi hard drive

Reinstall you Operating System with the Latest Version,and install the Driver from CD driver you've got when you Buying IBM ThinkPad.

Its probably trying to boot from your external drive.

Go into your bios and reset your boot setting to HDD0 as your first boot device, Disk drive 0 second and floppy third, unless you want to boot from an external drive. That being the case select an appropriate order.

If the bios shows your external HDD as HDD0, then you have to work out which is the drive carrying the operating system and set that to your first boot device.

To get into the bios, watch the boot screen for a key to hit to enter setup, normally its the "DEL" key.

from my exp recovery CD is of no use at all....if ur OS is corrupted.....use a WinXP install CD and boot from that. to do that...insert the CD in the CD/dvd drive and switch on...if the boot seq in BIOS is set to CD drive then it will boot first from that else it will boot from HD...so if u can get into BIOS by pressing the F1/F2/Del key etc and change the boot seq to the foll:
1st boot CD rom
2nd boot Floppy
3rd boot HDD0

u can even just disable 2nd and 3rd apart from keeping 1st boot to CD rom
if u have more than one HD or more than one partition in ur HD then u can install a new fresh Win XP in that and once that's done then change the boot seq back to HDD0 from CDROM drive in the 1st boot order
it will get back ur machine live then u can copy all ur imp files to a pen drive or CD then once u r safe of ur data u can do a low level format of the full HD and then aprtition that as per ur requirment

please change the wire connection in your pc from CD rom to HDD so that HDD become primary master and cd rom become primary slave, check after this, and if still get error check your IDE cable, and for the smart command fail may be your HDD didnt support smart feature, so disable this from advance setup

do you do any major changes do you have wincd or recovery
have you tried f1 then startup