[ltp] Replacement Drive for T30?

[Dean Hedin]

Mike,

Just about all the new drives are 9.5 thick and will work in the T30.   Your 
only choice is a question as to how much you want to spend for performance. 
There are 7200rpm drives now availible in 2.5 form factor.  If I were 
purchasing a drive now this is what I would shoot for.

You mentioned earlier that you were worried about the IBM restore stuff on 
your existing hard drive.

I have a T30 as well.  I used a third party partition tool (Partition Magic) 
when I installed RH 7.3 Linux.  I made it so I could dual boot XP or Linux 
by shrinking the original XP partition to make room for linux.  I left the 
original IBM restore partition as is.  I also made a second logical drive 
with FAT32 so I could mount it under Linux to exchange files between the two 
OS's.  FWIW I have a 60 gig drive original from IBM.

I am not certain what you did when you install your RH Linux.  Did you 
overwrite everything?

In any case, when/if you upgrade you might want to get a hold of two 3.5" to 
2.5" ide cable adapters.   You can then clone your existing drive onto the 
new drive by plugging them in an a desktop computer (using Partition Magic 
or some other tool).  After you clone it you can then resize the partition 
(to the size of the larger drive) using the same tool.