I used to have a Thinkpad 600E, and the bootup error sounds like a dead BIOS battery. I had the same kind of problem.
You can pick up a new battery for about $8 through IBM parts. You might also be able to just replace the button battery yourself - its just a battery shrink-wrapped to a connector. The disk problem... thats another matter. Chris M. On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:15:50 +1000, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:47, "Brendan Dacre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not been able to find a way to set any cmos values and there is a > > hardware manual I have read which seems to imply it might be a motherboard > > fault. So, > > Try powering the machine on with the F1 key pressed and keeping it down. > > > (1) Has anyone encountered this problem? And if so can it be "software" > > fixed? If it is hardware then the laptop is going in the bin (or at least > > scavenged for parts). > > One of the most valuable parts of the laptop is the screen, and it's also the > most easily damaged. It might be worth trying to find a working Thinkpad of > the same model with a broken screen. > > > (2) Also, I would, one way or another, like to recover my data off the > > hard disk (about a month of e-mails which weren't backed up). So I bought > > a 2.5" disk enclosure with a usb interface. Although the computer was > > stuffed, I assumed that the hard disk would still be OK. > > > > However, I find that the partition table has been completely corrupted and > > I cannot read the reiser fs partition on the disk (from my new laptop > > running debian woody from a reiser fs partition). > > Thinkpads have a variety of security options. Did you happen to use a hard > disk password? > > It might be a good idea to run strings(1) on the block device and see if you > recognise anything. Something like > "strings /dev/whatever | grep ........................." should give you a > good idea of whether encryption has been used. > > > Assuming that only the partition table has been corrupted (and this is > > looking more and more hopeful rather than realistic) is there a way to > > recreate it without destroying the data and leaving the file system intact? > > When you create a boot disk (from a debian woody install) at installation > > time, is it smart enough to save a copy of the partition table to this > > disk? > > The first thing to do is to use dd(1) to copy the entire hard disk to another > device. If your hard disk happens to be failing then you want to get the > data before it disappears! I recommend doing this right now without any > delay. Even if your hard disk is in perfect condition you still want a > backup in case your attempts to recover data screw things up. Probably the > best thing to do is to get another disk of similar size and try and use it > for restoration. > > The first partition on a disk starts at a fixed offset. You can work out the > size from looking at the ReiserFS superblock. Below is the file(1) data for > checking for ReiserFS. If you have Reiser 3.6 (most likely) then at offset > 0x10000 there will be a little-endian long specifying the size of the file > system. Once you know this and the geometry of the original disk you should > be able to work out where the next partition starts and repeat the process. > > 0x10034 string ReIsErFs ReiserFS V3.5 > 0x10034 string ReIsEr2Fs ReiserFS V3.6 > >0x1002c leshort x block size %d > >0x10032 leshort &2 (mounted or unclean) > >0x10000 lelong x num blocks %d > >0x10040 lelong 1 tea hash > >0x10040 lelong 2 yura hash > >0x10040 lelong 3 r5 hash > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Chris Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chrismetcalf.net
