I purchased an 60GB IDE hard drive to replace the 2.1GB drive in my Thinkpad 385ED. I've read posts on a couple different sites from people who have successfully put a 60GB drive in this machine.

I cannot get the thing to boot. The BIOS just won't recognize the drive at all (nor the CD drive when this HD is hooked up). The drive is good, I've tested in another machine. I know the drive is larger than the BIOS will read, but I can't even get it to show up in the first place. Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks.

EDIT: Well, that was quick. I figured it out already. Since this post will probably show up on google, this is the solution:

The drive needs a small partition (I made it 2.1GB) for the BIOS to even recognize that there's a disk attached.

EDIT2: Actually, the solution was something more strange. The system would not recognize the hard drive with the top cover installed. Without it, works fine:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/868877/IMAG0066.jpg

Something must have been shorting, who knows.