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#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 HOW TO#
#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 INSTALL#
#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 WINDOWS 10#
#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 SOFTWARE#

Make sure your BIOS boot-up sequence is set up to allow you to boot from a USB floppy drive.ĭO NOT write-protect the floppy disk - this won't work if the floppy disk is write protected. Then, you have to boot your ThinkPad from the floppy disk you've just created. Don't go too fast because, at the final screen, you must type 'Y' before pressing Enter. You will have to press Enter several times as you read through 15 successive license agreement screens. I'd advise formatting the floppy disk before you do this in order to make sure it's error free.

#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 INSTALL#

Install the LENOVO ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Diskette Version 1.76. Note: If you don't have a legacy floppy drive A: in your ThinkPad, you WILL need to obtain and use a USB floppy drive.įirst, you need to extract the contents of the 'Diskette' file onto a 1.44 MB 3½' floppy disk, which must be inserted into drive A. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Diskette version 1.73 I have a T60 laptop that had the motherboard replaced on it, therefore it doesn't have the type.

#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 HOW TO#

An explanation of how to obtain and how to use the CE Utility Diskette and the Hardware Maintenance Diskette for IBM ThinkPad notebook computers.

You will need to input the Model Type and SN together, with '1S' at the beginning. I can't remember now, but it's pretty straightforward once you are at this step. You will see a blue screen with some descriptions of the tool. You might need to hit 'F12' to open the boot options to choose it. Boot your Thinkpad with the USB stick you just made.You can always format it in windows, and the flash drive will turn back to normal. If it says 'Error: Drive not found to format', then it's very likely it can't run on your OS (Windows 10 for instance). Use 'usbfmtpw.exe' to make a bootable HMD USB.

But the application will not find your USB stick on windows 10. Windows 7 worked with all my flash drives.

#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 WINDOWS 10#

DO NOT use windows 10!! I've only tried windows 10 & 7, both 64 bit.

You can certainly find other versions on the Internet somewhere.

Download ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Diskette (HMD).

↳ ThinkPad SL and L Series until L420/L520.

#THINKPAD HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DISKETTE VERSION 1.73 SOFTWARE#

If so, you must use the same version of the software fix and download. 4) NOTE: MANY THINKPAD SYSTEMS HAVE ONLY A PORT FOR ONE OF THE BLUETOOTH VOLUME DRIVES.

↳ ThinkPad X200/X201/X220 and X300/X301 Series Thinkpad Hardware Maintenance Diskette Version 1.76 Download.

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Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Diskette. I need to use the HMD afterward to add UUID and system ID information. Question : ThinkPad Hardware Maintenance Diskette version 1.73. The reason I want to do this, by the way, is that I've found some X201s motherboards (i5, not i7, but that's good enough for my purposes) on eBay, and I've swapped them in for the original motherboards on a couple of X200 systems. But it would be easier to have a USB stick. Other bootable USB keys (created by other programs) do show up on the list, and I've included all USB devices on the list of bootable devices in the BIOS.Īm I missing something obvious? Because I can't seem to create a usable USB stick of the Maintenance Diskette, I've used a USB floppy drive in order to boot to the diskette version. But whenever I use it, the resulting USB key doesn't show up in the Boot Device List on my ThinkPad X201s models.

It includes a program that is supposed to write the HMD to a bootable USB key. Thanks to a helpful and expert member of this forum, I was able to find a copy of the Hardware Maintenance Diskette version 1.86.