new hard drive G41, factory restored, now stuck to always start at R & R

G41 2886-79U with XP Pro.  Hard drive died last year, still under warranty then took to an IBM service center.  They have replaced the hard drive under warranty and gave me a set of R & R and product recovery CD.  Laptop computer R & RL ran OK for about a month.  He started to be right about the time when my warranty has expired, becoming slow example, 45 minutes to start.  Random crashes, most often when closing programs, the error message this program could not write to the hard disk.  Frequency of accident back.

Abandoned, taken from the hard drive to install a new hard drive.  [Hmmmm, I notice that they in fact did not replace my original with a new drive, this drive warranty-replaced has a sticker saying "Good used State party"].

Installed the new HD, started using the CD R & R, then followed the six guests R & R factory restore since the product recovery CD.  After the sixth disc, message box saying it needs to restart the PC, you click Yes or no.  There is no direction to remove the CD from the drive, at this point.

It restarts at the R & R window, with the popup of restore factory warning that the product recovery program is only for the unrecoverable system problems.  This looks at where we started the process of factory restore, there are seven CDs.  Choices here are OK, Cancel, or help.  Clicking OK brings you back at the beginning of the factory restore procedure.  Cancel on your vacuum on the main R & R screen. By clicking on restart here restarts once again to the screen of Rescue and Recovery.

Now the G41 is stuck, still boots to R R & does not start in XP.

I pulled the HD and installed temporarily in another PC that has a floppy drive, this allowed me to start with Partition Magic.

R & R 3 partitions on the new disk as follows:

1. the label is IBMPSP, Type FAT32, size = 406 MB, used (s) = 290,4 Mb, status = None, Pri/Log = primary.

2 no label, Type unallocated =, size = Mo 71738,8, used (s) = 0.0 MB, status = None, Pri/Log = primary.

3 no label, Type unallocated =, size = Mo 4171,3, used (s) = 0.0 MB, status = Active, Pri/Log = primary.

On this PC, I let him try to boot from the hard drive and got the message "Missing Operating System".

I put it in the G41, it starts at IBM Rescue and Recovery as before.

I've searched the web and this forum looking for this same issue, have not found something exactly like this.

If anybody out there knows how to get a new HD to market, let me know.

Thank you, Don.  I found the idea on another forum of Lenovo.  So far things are working OK.  The other hard drive will be float-tested as soon as I do not know there is nothing on it that I still need.

As the professor said, it's just not intuitively obvious to the casual observer.

A note, when the PC was bought, it came with Norton Antivirus installed, long expired.  After the factory restore, the Nortonware registered with the site of Norton and apparently it has been recognized as a new installation and got the last update.

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