Be careful - there are different widths of 2.5 inch drives. You can 
probably fit a thinner one than the original but not a thicker one !

Cheers/2

Ed.

Alan Townsend wrote:

>Hi Jim:
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>If you get a compatable drive it will probably use the same "Drive
Caddy"
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>Your chances of getting a 5.1 gig drive is about nil!!
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>I was just looking and replacement drives are 30 GB and up. It shoud just
>fit in the same "Disk Caddy"
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>As long as it is a 2.5" drive it should fit the "Disk Caddy"
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>Regards Al 
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>-------Original Message-------
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>From: inkleput{at}isp.com
>Date: 06/14/05 15:55:21
>To: os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [OS2HW] Laptop hard drives
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>altownsend{at}dccnet.com said:
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>>The "Disk Caddy" does the conversion to fit the drive to
the Omnibook.
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>>The drive pinoouts and the "Disk Caddy" pinouts were very
different.
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>Apparently you are saying if you get a different hard drive you
>willprobably have to get a matching caddy?  This is what they were
>saying?  You can put almost anything into almost anything if you have
>the right adapter?  Not at all like the 3.5" drives all alike.
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>I guess my questions about getting the right thing have to do with NOT
>having to swap caddies.
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>>What model of Laptop have you?
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>ThinkPad 770E.
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>Thanks.
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>Jim L, via eCS 1.14 version of OS/2
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