On 08/20/06 05:01 am Kris Steenhaut wrote:

>> I am trying to replace my Thinkpad T43 hard drive with a 120gb one.

> If you can do it you will be very lucky. The bios of quite a few TP43 is 
> hard coded in a way these laptops ONLY accept exact the same type and 
> number of the disk they are delivered with.  And if your laptop 's HD 
> is  a 40 Giga one, I'd say you  are in same bad league as I was.
> Hitherto nobody has found a way around. (-:
> 
> Thus, try before you pay.

If that's how the TP43 has been designed, it's a bad design. And no 
doubt that identical drive is specially coded and greatly overpriced? I 
had no problem whatsoever replacing the 20GB drive in my Toshiba 
Satellite (that's the cheapest of their lines) by a 60GB Seagate one off 
the shelf at Best Buy.

-=-
Alan


 
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