IBM thinkpad 760EL doesn't boot

Robert A. Munro linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:28:15 -0700


"Amalio F. Nieto Serrano" wrote:

> The problem I have is the computer doesn't boot, neither from the hard
> disk (which is "logic", because it's in a bad state), neither from floppy (I
> have not discovered the option for booting from CD in the IBM TP760EL -I think
> it hasn't-, so I have not tried the boot from CD).

Try the DOS boot disk "fdisk /mbr" trick first.  If all you did was muck up the
partition table (and not actually write over any data), this might recover it.

Bob