IBM X40 HDD Swap

[smittenkitty]

Hello All,

I currently have an IBM X40 and I am looking to change the hard drive ... the current one is dying (having trouble reading data).

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with changing an IBM hard drive? I'd like to keep some of the IBM software and infrastructure, not to mention my files and OS installation. However, IBMs are somewhat weird with their partitioned-off R: and whatnot.

Anyone with knowledge of or experience in changing laptop hard drives and especially IBM hard drives, please post!

Oh, and can anyone recommend a good hard drive to put in? I'm thinking 7200rpm, 100GB+.

Thanks!

 

[TheStu]

From what I have seen and heard, the highest capacity 5400RPM drives will be just as fast as the highest capacity 7200RPM drives. And seeing as how the largest 5400RPM drive that I know of is 250GB that is pretty serious.

As far as keeping all the stuff from the original drive you are going to need something that can clone the drive. So after you find out if the drive is ATA or SATA, then you will probably want to get yourself an enclosure for the new drive and the clone the old one over to the new one. Then have them swap places, and now you can have a new external hard drive (the old internal drive)

 

[smittenkitty]

Thanks for the input, TheStu!

Has anyone had any experience specifically swapping an IBM Thinkpad hard drive?