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Ok, so earlier today I was trying to load Ubuntu on my ThinkPad. When I tried to load it on the boot menu it just loads Windows 7. I have also tried this with Chromium OS. But it just loads Windows 7 as usual. Does anyone know a fix to this? My model is a Think T60 2009 (I think.)

Lenovo's ThinkPad 2 was a great tablet, but Intel's older Atom platform struggled to run Windows 8 smoothly, the tablet itself was chunky, and its screen had fewer pixels than the smaller, but newer ThinkPad 8 . The ThinkPad 10 brings all of those old spots up to spec without sacrificing any of...

Lenovo is back with another Windows tablet similar to its ThinkPad 8, the aptly-named ThinkPad 10. With this tablet comes a QuickShot cover and screen just as beautiful as its smaller sibling, as well as a couple docking stations, one with and one without a keyboard. To see how the slate and its...

Hello fellow users, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but my laptop's USB ports are faulty to the devices I connect. This happened mid-February, when I couldn't connect my wireless desktop receiver for my wireless keyboard and mouse, and it also happened with my external HDD...

I have used computer for 9 years. My first computer is a DIY desktop computer, the second one is ThinkPad T43, and the current is HP Pavilion g4. I didn't care the outdated drivers on first several years. With the accumulation of computer knowledge , I learned that old driver are related with...

Hi, Drive D is not accessible. Access denied. I have tried taking ownership, full control give to everyone, etc Nothing worked. But Drive D can be accessible as normal in safe mode. Lenovo Thinkpad Edge Windows 7 Professional SP1 Link RemovedLink RemovedLink RemovedLink Removed

[Solved] Win 7 - BSOD page_fault_in_nonpaged_area 0x50 I'm working on a Lenovo T510 Thinkpad and it's getting a BSOD everytime it starts up. The BSOD occurs several seconds after logging in. When booting in safemode it appears to never happen. While in safemode I tried disabling all startup...

Hi - I have a Lenovo T410 thinkpad running Windows 7 64-bit, and yesterday I spilled a bit of syrup on the trackpad and the left and right buttons that sit directly below it. It wasn't much, and I tried to wipe it up immediately. Afterwards, the interal mouse has gone in and out of...

Hello, I have experienced a crash after i turned my laptop on. I have windows 8 pro (64bit) activated , Norton internet security 2013 valid, thinkpad t400. I once had windows 7 and upgraded to windows 8 before 2 weeks (i made fresh install). I have in the beginning pc tools spyware doctor...

Hello all, I have a toshoba satellite with windows 7 home version I have a couple of old 2.5 hard drives from an old IBM thinkpad that I want to get the pictures from. I bought a SATA/IDE USB cable and plugged it in after a while it loaded and i could see the drive in "my computer", and I...

I've tried numerous times to try and update Windows Updates (trying to update on a new computer: Lenovo Thinkpad T530) but every time I shut it off, it says it's updating and it looks like it's doing fine but when I turn it says it's configuring Windows updates and it always gets stuck at the...

I have a 32 bit Windows 7 Lenovo Thinkpad L412. In the past few weeks I have re-imaged my hd to factory state (as I do often). After a few days it begins to go into sleep or stand-by mode after being left idle for around 5-10 minutes. It does not turn off, or actually hibernate, it simply...

Hi there, I have been searching forums for some help, but have not found anything. I have a thinkpad x100e netbook and a Conexant CX20582 SmartAudio HD sound card. i just reinstalled windows 7 and it seems the microphone has not worked since i did that. I have adjusted, updated, disabled and...

Hi! I'm unable to connect an old IBM ThinkPad computer (with XP Pro on it) to the internet over the WLAN. When I use the LAN (wired connection) it connects and works perfectly. It detects the available Networks and SSID asks for the key and tries to make the connection, but fails invariably...

I've had a couple BSOD's the past couple months on my Thinkpad T420, seems to have been caused by the same issue. I've attached the .dmp files, would appreciate any help on the issue!

I am torn between the two OS's and wonder which is better, I tried win 8 Rp but video drivers are not readily available for it. Now I'm on Win 7 and find gaming to be somewhat decent on my Thinkpad R61 with gm 965 chipset graphics A.K.A Intel X3100. So I thought I'd start this thread...

XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Boot Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? Physical-to-Virtual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My Thinkpad X61T with recent 8GB DDR2 Upgrade: I have an XP Pro 3 instance on a HDD able...

I just picked myself up a used Thinkpad T410 with i5core at 2.4ghz and 4Gb of RAM with a standard HDD & W7 x64. I don't do VMs I don't edit Video I don't process stupidly large RAW files (not again) The machine is primarily for processing a small work database that needs to be 'mobile'...

I have a think pad w510 laptop that had recently been upgraded to win 7 enterprise. Every time i install something or change a setting, it asks me to allow the program then to type a username/password. After that i get an annoying error saying " the requested operation requires elevation". does...

Dear all, recently, the motherboard on my ThinkPad laptop died and I was left trying to access the data that is in my Bitlocker encrypted SATA Hard drive (Crucial, RealSSD C300 1.8) via USB. I bought the adaptor, plugged the hard drive into a different machine running Windows 7 Ultimate, but...