The HMM for the IBM T43 indicates it uses IDE drives. 30GB to 80GB and
had XP Home or Professional on it when shipped. I was able to recover
an Windows 2K drive that was unbootable even after a reimage, once
Linux had been installed on it.

If you have critical data on the drive professional recovery may be
required before trying this fix.

Create a Win98 boot disk with fdisk on it. Boot to a dos prompt and run
fdisk /mbr This should repair the master boot record. This fix has also
been able to correct page size errors that prevent Win2K systems from
booting.

Miha Verlic wrote:
> Michael Trausch wrote:
>> In short, unless you have a very weird setup, or actually typed an h
>> instead of an s, your laptop should be fine.
>
> newer laptops already have SATA drives...
>
> I'd recommend you try to rescue data with something like Easy Recovery
> Pro or some similar tool.
>

The T43 that I had for a short time did not have one... it may be
possible that other models of the T43 do, but I know that mine still had
IDE and still lived at /dev/hda.

- Mike