Functioning T41 HD will not boot on differant Laptop

Hey guys,

I'm looking for some help here. I have a T41 that just failed. (Video/MoBo failure) The Hard drive is still good and I would like to transplant it to a working Dell D600. I realize that I'll need to load a bunch of drivers and stuff, but the HD will not even start the windows boot process. It just sits on the Rescue and Recovery screen.

What do I need to do to this HD to may it bootable in a different(non-IBM) laptop?

Thanks in advance,

Lance

 

I don't think it can. Put it in an external enclosure and pull off your files

 

Thanks for the tip, but What would prevent that from working? I've transplanted HDs from one computer to another many times. Normally I just have to reload drivers and what not. Is there a compatibility problem that you know of?

Thanks

Lance

 

It should work if you went from t41 to another t41. I'm not positive if it would work in other systems, but I don't think it would as is. The question is how would you load the drivers and such? If you wiped and clean installed from the dell disk, it should work, but then you'd lose everything on the drive. I never tried this, but I think this is how it works. Maybe others have more/better info.

 

You can certainly transport a HD from one computer to another different type computer. I've done it many times. Most of the time you just reinstall the differing drivers when it boots up. Sometimes the hard drive driver is not compatible and windows will fail to load. In which case you can do a reg hack to tell windows to load all drivers on its next boot. This is NOT the problem I'm having.

This harddrive will not even start booting windows. Just sits at the prompt that says push F11 to use Rescue and Recovery.

Does anyone know what the issue could be?