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To: raybbr; Dead Corpse
I'm pretty sure that's the case. After a deep level format on a windows machine there is still less than 80G available. Where would I find the "prep utility"?

Heh... I don't know - usually it will be among downloads for the machine at the manufacturer's site. Like I said, I am not even sure if IBM (Lenovo) ever even used such a thing - Compaq was notorious for it, and a few others...

Please provide the model number/specs.

Do you have another known good drive to prove with? If TWO drives don't work, it has to be hardware interface or BIOS. Right now, the drive you have may well check out fine, but if the first sector is damaged, it will still BE fine, but will never boot. So it still could be the drive too...

Is the drive SMART capable? Can you see if it has moved clusters with a SMART utility?

43 posted on 11/18/2013 10:05:18 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1; raybbr

Link I provided in 41 goes right to the Lenovo support page for the BIOS utility that should fix Ray’s UEFI problem. Info provided up-thread mention it being a Lenovo 3000 N100.

Text file even included instructions on doing an upgrade/repair to the BIOS partition.

Hope it works for ya’...


45 posted on 11/18/2013 10:29:17 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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