Up until the other day this Thinkpad X60s laptop worked fine. It was bought privately a couple of weeks ago. It loads the Thinkpad screen and then just goes black, on but not booting.
I have taken out the HDD and connected it to a USB case and then to my PC. It seems to be fine. I even ran CHKDSK on it and did some diagnostic testing and all was fine.
I put it back into the X60s, ran the BIOS and tried to do a status check on the HDD from BIOS. It tries to check the HDD for about 3 minutes before returning with a read error 0000.
I think it must be a simple BIOS issue?
If I power on the laptop without the HDD it powers fine and then reports that there is no HDD present and no operating system present.
So far, I have only changed the BIOS in relation to making sure the HDD was first in the booting preferences but that didn't solve anything.
Any ideas? It's an 80GB SATA HDD.
I have taken out the HDD and connected it to a USB case and then to my PC. It seems to be fine. I even ran CHKDSK on it and did some diagnostic testing and all was fine.
I put it back into the X60s, ran the BIOS and tried to do a status check on the HDD from BIOS. It tries to check the HDD for about 3 minutes before returning with a read error 0000.
I think it must be a simple BIOS issue?
If I power on the laptop without the HDD it powers fine and then reports that there is no HDD present and no operating system present.
So far, I have only changed the BIOS in relation to making sure the HDD was first in the booting preferences but that didn't solve anything.
Any ideas? It's an 80GB SATA HDD.