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What hard drives are compatible with Ibm Thinkpads? (z61m)
What hard drives are compatible with Ibm Thinkpads? (z61m)
As far as I know, thinkpads will not accept any other drives than original Ibm harddisks. However I know people is able to flash HD firmware and make them work 100%.
This is why I would like this thread to become a list of retail (non-ibm) drives that can be confirmed to work with thinkpads when flashed.
Personally I'm considering buying the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9120823AS. Can anyone confirm that this disk can be made compatible.
This is why I would like this thread to become a list of retail (non-ibm) drives that can be confirmed to work with thinkpads when flashed.
Personally I'm considering buying the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9120823AS. Can anyone confirm that this disk can be made compatible.
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No, today all thinkpads accept non lenovo HDDs.
Just make sure your BIOS is up-to-date.
The HDD you mentioned will work.
Just make sure your BIOS is up-to-date.
The HDD you mentioned will work.
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With the man who takes me from my horse, and leads me to a bar."
The man who took her off her steed, and stood her to a beer,
Were a bleary-eyed Surveyor and a DRUNKEN ENGINEER.
Are you sure?
Are you perfectly sure about that? Have you tried it, or know anyone who have done it?
If there is no problem with putting "ordinary" non-ibm drives into thinkpads, then why is there a section in this forum about flashing retail harddrives?
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this guy has replaced.. maybe it works.. (the last post, user wzh78)
http://reviews.pricegrabber.co.uk/hard- ... /36603028/
anyways, I've ordered the harddrive and will post how it went during the weekend.
If there is no problem with putting "ordinary" non-ibm drives into thinkpads, then why is there a section in this forum about flashing retail harddrives?
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this guy has replaced.. maybe it works.. (the last post, user wzh78)
http://reviews.pricegrabber.co.uk/hard- ... /36603028/
anyways, I've ordered the harddrive and will post how it went during the weekend.
That applied to T43 and R52 models...no other ThinkPads need flashing of hard drives to get around error codes...
And I've owned Z series machines and they work very well with a retail Seagate...as long as it's SATA
And I've owned Z series machines and they work very well with a retail Seagate...as long as it's SATA
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XXXX it all....
Well... this new drive is incredibly fast!!!!! HOWEVER - now I've just encountered the following 2 errors
I just bougth a seagate momentus 7200.2 120gb harddrive, and replaced it with the hd that came with my machine (z61m)
I've used the drive for 2 days, and I got:
BSOD:
KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR
(in short)
restart windows and see if it happens again, make sure you hard & software is correctly installed, drivers are up to date, try deactivating caching or shadowing
*** STOP: 0x00000077 (0xC0000056, 0xC0000056, 0x0000000, 0x0225C000
AND after the BSOD I got this:
ERROR
2100: HDD0 (Hard disk drive) initialization error (1)
Note that this has only happened for me one time - but I want to know if anyone else has replaced their original drive with a retail drive, AND gotten this error
I'm also suspecting that I haven't attached the drive firmly enough....
I just bougth a seagate momentus 7200.2 120gb harddrive, and replaced it with the hd that came with my machine (z61m)
I've used the drive for 2 days, and I got:
BSOD:
KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR
(in short)
restart windows and see if it happens again, make sure you hard & software is correctly installed, drivers are up to date, try deactivating caching or shadowing
*** STOP: 0x00000077 (0xC0000056, 0xC0000056, 0x0000000, 0x0225C000
AND after the BSOD I got this:
ERROR
2100: HDD0 (Hard disk drive) initialization error (1)
Note that this has only happened for me one time - but I want to know if anyone else has replaced their original drive with a retail drive, AND gotten this error
I'm also suspecting that I haven't attached the drive firmly enough....
Its been 12 days now, and I haven't had any bluescreen since.
However I did have 3 crashes where the computer freezes in windows, and the system is unresponsive.
I don't know if this is due to driver problems or harddrive - but it runs very stable (and fast!) now.
It happens when I reconnect the power cord - but haven't happened more than 3 times
However I did have 3 crashes where the computer freezes in windows, and the system is unresponsive.
I don't know if this is due to driver problems or harddrive - but it runs very stable (and fast!) now.
It happens when I reconnect the power cord - but haven't happened more than 3 times
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