[ltp] Upgrade hard drive

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---- James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote: 
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:26:02 -0500
> > James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> dijo:
> >
> >   
> >>> Isn't there some kind of whitelist of accepted disks in thinkpad's bios?
> >>>       
> >    
> >   
> >> Not that I've heard of.  That sort of thing could leave you unable to
> >> replace the hard drive at some time in the future.
> >>     
> >
> > The purpose is to force you to buy your replacement hard drive from
> > Lenovo. Or so I was told by the dealer when I bought my T61 a couple of
> > years ago.
> >   
> That sort of thing will force me to buy my next notebook from other than
> Lenovo. It's just one more reason to avoid them. They certainly don't do
> things the way IBM did.

IBM did the same thing on many models, but there is a fix on the web.

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