[ltp] Non-IBM provided disk on a Thinkpad?

[Michael Ott]

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Hello Manuel!

> my T40's 80Gb HD crashed yesterday.  IBM service is really lousy here
> in Spain (because they do everything through retailers).  I am
> thinking on buying a similar disk (a 80Gb Hitachi) or something a bit
> larger (100Gb, probably).  I understand that IBM ships the disks with
> funny things (e.g., the predesktop area) which will not be present in
> a fresh HD.  Will that be a problem?  I have not really used (at least
> not intentionally) the predesktop much, so I think I can live without
> it.  Or do you think I will be running into troubles?
In my R51 i changed the disk without any problems. In my T43 i changed
it to but the machine let me know that this harddisk is not the right
one. But it worked. I put the original inside again. Annoying sound and
error message

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