Mon, June 13, 2005 - 06:38 PM

Hi Jim:

I had the same problem on my HP Omnibook.

The original 40GB IBM drive was not available.

I got an 80GB Drive Hitachi drive and had to move the "Drive Caddy to
the new drive.

If a drive is listed as a replacement you will havee to move the
"Drive Caddy" or buy a new one

The BIOS recognized the largersize

** NOTE **  Drive Caddy is the big difference between Notebooks. 
                       It will have the outside plastic trim to match
                       and the inside conector.

Regards Al

In , on 06/13/2005 
   at 08:42 PM, inkleput{at}isp.com said:



>What's up with laptop hard drives?  I have a ThinkPad 770.  IBM says the
>original drive is a 12J0449.  Believe it or not I have a good reason to get
>an exact duplicate of it.  But what's available is another thing.

>Now one site has a 12J0449 and 9 others all with different numbers,
>including 07N3673, which they say are all replacements for the same thing.

>HELP!  What are they talking about?  Do they know?  Good grief one supplier
>had a 12J0449 they said was a drive caddy for $28.  Are any of these people
>competent?  And the actual drives are listed, believe it or not, anywhere
>from $50 to $495!

>I'd appreciate any suggestions about getting a duplicate drive.

>Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2



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