What hard drives are compatible with Ibm Thinkpads? (z61m)

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LasseFJ · #1 Post by **LasseFJ** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:56 am

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.

#2 Post by **ryengineer** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:17 am

No, today all thinkpads accept non lenovo HDDs.

Just make sure your BIOS is up-to-date.

The HDD you mentioned will work.

LasseFJ · #3 Post by **LasseFJ** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:32 am

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.

ajkula66 · #4 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:42 am

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

LasseFJ · #5 Post by **LasseFJ** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:43 am

Thank you very much for the confirmation

s_ranzau · #6 Post by **s_ranzau** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:40 pm

What about R61 models... are they also accepting all retail HDD's?

ajkula66 · #7 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:57 pm

Yes they do, the same business...SATA

LasseFJ · #8 Post by **LasseFJ** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:30 pm

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....

LasseFJ · #9 Post by **LasseFJ** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:21 am

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

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