I've now put the old IDE HDD in an ultrabay IDE caddy, and it's recognised correctly by Windows but when I try to access it, I'm told I dont have permission to view or edit it...any ideas please?


EDIT - Now figured it out by enabling the Guest Account - All is good

I installed my mSATA setup as described above this evening.

Thank you for this newer solution, works great!!

Hi Johan, I got the mSATA caddy today and together with a Crucial 64GB mSATA SSD, my T40 is now happily running Win7 Ultimate. The boot time on Win XP with the original 256MB RAM was anywhere up to 10 mins, with frequent hanging especially while web browsing. When I upgraded to 2GB, boot time was do...

Hi Johan, I'm going to go with Gary's suggestion for my T40. I just ordered the caddy so will prob take 3-4 wks to arrive. I imagine I can use an mSATA drive in that. My 2x1GB RAM upgrade is arriving on Monday to replace the original 256MB, so step 1 of reviving the T40 is getting close. I'm still n...

Many thanks, I just ordered too

Hi Owen,

Is this kit still available pls?