Thinkpad T30 stopped detecting the HDD...

[martinsre]

Hi,
I couldn't solve this on my own, and asked some others for help.
Since this is such an old laptop, the pc guy whom I asked said that at the moment he has no reserve hdd to test. But the laptop didnt want to boot from a cd or usb. In the BIOS it detects no HDD, only cdrom, etc. When I boot it up, before it goes into BIOS, it says 0200: Failure Fixed Disk. Can't get past it. This just came up from no-where after updating video drivers, and without restarting loading a game, black screen, forced reboot by holding power switch.
Any help?
Martin

[mjc]

Try pulling the hard drive and reseating it, if the BIOS still doesn't detect it the you will need either another hard drive to test in that laptop or a USB enclosure to put that drive into for testing.

[martinsre]

i've tried reseating a couple of times already. The problem is that the laptop can't boot from a different device, and it doesn't even see the hdd in bios.
what do u mean with the USB?

[martinsre]

funny thing....

laptop was out of battery, so i gave up working.
2 weeks later
that is now
it just starts up...

[classicsoftware]

Hard drives can do that. But be forewarned it will fail again. Back it up and check it out ASAP.