Replacing a laptop hard drive

[Rapsven]

Well, I plan on getting a Thinkpad T400 and I want to replace its hard drive with an Intel X25-M G2 160 gigabyte SSD. I have a few questions as to the whole thing:

1. Will the BIOS recognize the SSD?
2. Before I take out the stock drive, I should burn a recovery disk from the hidden partition with the OS and all its drivers (and bloatware...), right?
3. Does Intel's TRIM firmware for the G2 drives work now?

 

[sxr7171]

Yes
No do a clean install
yes

 

[Rapsven]

Yes
No do a clean install
yes

Clean install? Does Lenovo include the OS disk with their Thinkpad shipments? And what about the drivers for things like their trackpad and everything else?

 

[Denithor]

Burn a recovery disk, the OEMs don't include physical media anymore (haven't for years). Then install the new drive and do a recovery installation and you should be in business. Win7 right?

 

[BushLin]

If this is supposed to work or you are just going to try it anyway, you'll probably want the Hardware Maintenance Manual for that model:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70069.html