If you have your Win 98 CD, go to accessories/system tools/system information/tools/system file checker.  From there you can retrieve all the driver files needed from the Win CD.  Since the driver is installed with the Windows installation, possibly one of the files is corrupted. You can also remove the parent device and IDE controllers by highlighting them and clicking remove in device manager.  On a restart Windows should load them again. Have you tried doing a "thorough" scandisk run to see if the drive has bad sectors?  The 560 is an old enough model to have a drive with problems.




>I just received an IBM ThinkPad 560x,  No OS.  I updated the Bios
>to the latest.  The installed Win98.  Everything seemed fine just a
>little slow.  In device manager Under  -DiskDrives-  only the
>generic NEC Floppy Disk is shown, No hard drive at all.
>Under  -Hard Disk Controllers-  the Primary IDE controller   Has
>a yellow exclamation point.  In PROPERTIES the device status
>shows " This device is either not present, not working properly,
>or does not have all the drivers installed.  (Code 10.)   Try
>upgrading the device drivers for this device."
>Does any one know what drivers I need or is the controller bad?
>The parent device is:   Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE
>Controller        the drivers are ESDI_506.pdr        and
>VMM32.VXD                The Primary Controller Drivers are
>ESDI_506.pdr        and        IOS.vxd
>

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