[ltp] new hard drive for a thinkpad 770z

[Rob Mayoff]

+---------- On Jul 18, Mark Alexander Wotton said:
> I've just bought a thinkpad 770z minus a hard drive off ebay, thinking
> that I could use the drive from my current laptop, a Fujitsu 20gb. On
> disassembling the 770z, however, I couldn't find anywhere to plug in a
> standard laptop drive. Do I need some kind of hard-drive adaptor, or are
> Thinkpad hard drives simply different?

You need a 770 hard drive shell. IBM doesn't sell them without hard
drives inside, AFAIK. You might find one used (I did once). Or you could
see if IBM still sells 770 drive upgrades. The largest drive IBM ever
sold for the 770 series was 14.1 GB, so you probably just want to get
the cheapest drive they sell, and put your 20 GB drive in its shell.

Note that the 770 "2nd HDD Adapter" does not come with a drive shell.
At least, mine didn't.  The adapter requires a drive in a shell, and
fits in the Ultrabay.