[ltp] Replacement Drive for T30?

[Aaron Mulder]

	I've upgraded a T30 to a HGST 60GB/7200 RPM drive.  Though I'm
starting to hear the drive has been discontinued -- not sure what's up
with that.  I don't see why you couldn't use just about any modern 2.5"  
drive, but that's the only one I've actually used myself.

	Anyway, if your machine had a system recovery partition (forgot
whether the T30 did, but I assume from your question that it does), it'll
be on the old drive and won't work on the new drive.  You'll have to order
a set of CDs from IBM (or use a Dell Windows CD or something) if you want
to install Windows on the new drive (if it's WinXP, the CD key on the
laptop doesn't typically work with retail/MSDN install discs).  But
usually if you call IBM support and tell them you're upgrading the drive,
they'll send you a CD set free of charge.

Aaron

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Michael B Allen wrote:
> I'm still running RH 7.3 and it's starting to hurt! I was thinking I
> should just buy a new drive for a new install (mmm, fedora I guess).
> 
> I have a T30 2366-52U. Can someone recommend a good replacement drive?
> Does the T30 take a standard notebook drive or should I get what IBM says
> I need [1]?
> 
> Are there any "gotcha"s using a new drive (e.g. hibernate / recovery
> partition, etc)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> [1]
> http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/ModelLookup3/236652U?opendocument&sourcesite=lenovo#Storage
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