Jim Showalter ha scritto:
>
> >
>
> Mike and Jon,
>
> My computer is a laptop. Should have mentioned that in my original query.
>
> Reading the reviews of the Hitachi Travelstar 80GB that Mike pointed to,
> it appears that others have replaced a 4200 RPM drive with this 7200 rpm
> in their laptops with no problems.
>
> Is there any possibility that the BIOS may have a problem with the change?
>
On a TP41 I replaced succesfully the 40 Giga disk it came with by an
Hitachi 80 Gig 72000. However, a few years later trying to do the same with
a TP43 (still IBM then) resulted in an error message at boot , IIRC saying
something like "this is not a suitable disk. some of your data may be 
lost" - press enter to continue. Meaning booting and rebooting always
has to be attended. A cunning way of crippling hardware, as in the end it's
not comfortable to work with a system like that.

It seems all of the IBM were and Lenovo laptops are  coming with a 40 or 60
giga disk have this "feature" build into the bios - the more
costly ones coming with larger disks don't.

So it's your call and your risk depending on your type of hardware.




-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



 
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