HITACHI 100 GB 7200 RPM IN STOCK

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mwoc · #31 Post by **mwoc** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:30 pm

ZipZoomFly has it for $212 plus free 2 day fedex shipping. Should get mine early next week. I'm looking forward to the speed boost everyone talks about as I have the standard 40GB that came with my T42.

CoolDragon · #32 Post by **CoolDragon** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:18 pm

Wow, it is now $210.50 !

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... te=bizrate

If not the 2010 error, I would have bought it! darn!

rocketman · #33 Post by **rocketman** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:47 pm

If the Seagate 100GB 7200rpm hard drive is available I'd go for it over the Hitachi. From what I've read on other forums the Seagate is a much quieter hard drive.

mwoc · #34 Post by **mwoc** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:11 am

Thought I would post my experience upgrading my hard drive. I think it took all of 45 minutes start to finish. I used Norton Ghost v 9.0 and backed up my current 40GB to a shared drive on my network. Pulled the old drive out, put the new drive in and booted with the Norton Ghost CD. It asked if I wanted to load the network drivers which I did. I was able to find my shared drive and backup image. Restore took about 30 minutes and when I rebooted everything was perfect.

People have posted their prior experiences with Ghost and I have seen some horror stories, fortunately I wasn't one of them.

The drive is a lot faster than the 40gb, although it is a bit louder. It's not something that will bother me, but it's noticeable.

#35 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:21 am

mwoc wrote:Thought I would post my experience upgrading my hard drive. I think it took all of 45 minutes start to finish. I used Norton Ghost v 9.0 and backed up my current 40GB to a shared drive on my network.

One question. Have you tried booting up into the Rescue and Recovery workspace by pressing the blue Access IBM button on boot up (from a cold start)?

mwoc · #36 Post by **mwoc** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:46 am

I didn't copy the rescue partition as I made the rescue CD's when I first got the laptop. I now use Ghost to do incremental backups every night so if something happens to this drive I'm covered. I had the rescue partition installed for a year on the original drive and never had to use it(famous last words).

CoolDragon · #37 Post by **CoolDragon** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:07 am

So are you having this 2010 error if you are using T43?

mwoc · #38 Post by **mwoc** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:31 am

I have a T42

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