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| 747427 | 2009-02-12 23:23:00 | IBM Thinkpad R51 I think it takes an IDE Hard Drive. I have no idea if IDE Hard Drives are all interchangable but I am assuming so. Currently a 60Gb Hard Drive in it, I was wondering if likes of ascent.co.nz would be ok in it. I have pulled plenty of PC's to bits and built them but never ventured inside a Laptop so don't know a lot about them. Yes, the R51 is old but it needs to hang on in there for a while longer yet before I replace it. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 747428 | 2009-02-13 00:33:00 | Is there a plate at the back which you can remove to access the hard drive? Laptop hard drives are considered user replaceable. I know all SATA notebook hard drives are identical, so they can be swapped with ease. |
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| 747429 | 2009-02-13 00:40:00 | Undo the panel underneath and remove the existing drive - its normally marked with a little drive symbol. ANy 2.5" HDD will do - just make sure if yours is IDE that you buy IDE. Western Digital would be my recommendation. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 747430 | 2009-02-13 01:35:00 | thank you all. Yes it is IDE, and no I am not a fan of WD. But now I know they fit that is great. Yep one small screw and it is out, I can hook it up to my PC to transfer the data plus IBM recover partition. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 747431 | 2009-02-13 18:34:00 | Thank you bjzyxty for that exceptionally helpful information. I am sure your mother would be proud of you spamming like that. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 747432 | 2009-02-13 19:41:00 | bjzyxty: it usually helps if you spam in the common language of the target forum :illogical ANy 2.5" HDD will do - just make sure if yours is IDE that you buy IDE. Western Digital would be my recommendation.WD now?? Why the change from Seagate? |
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