T43P HDD replacement

[JF1980]

Hi there,

I'm looking to replace my T43p hard disk and was wondering if the Fujitsu MHV2120AH will do the job without giving me the 'ESC' message on boot? Also will the active drive protection still work? I would rather have a 7200RPM drive if anyone could suggest a specific model (120GB or more).

Thanks,

[Johan]

If you kindly look at the sticky in the top of this forum (!), named: Problems with non-thinkpad option drives on T43 thinkpads and go to page 14, and there see the uppermost post (by SteveS, of Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:42 pm), you will find the answer to your question.

Also, see the threads Upgrade T43 to bigger, faster HDD and T43-p HDD upgrade question. An interesting option is to put a (7200 rpm) SATA drive in a T60-UltraBay, modify this UltraBay slightly, and put that (slightly modified) UltraBay in a T43 - by that you can have 300 GB 7200 rpm HDD's in a T43 - read the thread FS: Mint T43p 2668-H1U 15" UXGA, see the post of Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:05 pm.

If you want to search for information in this forum yourself, try this page! I absolutely recommend it!

Best regards,

Johan

[Harryc]

An interesting option is to put a (7200 rpm) SATA drive in a T60-UltraBay, modify this UltraBay slightly, and put that (slightly modified) UltraBay in a T43 - by that you can have 300 GB 7200 rpm HDD's in a T43

Johan, thanks for your continued support on this forum and for your informative posts/threads. Question, do you see any reason why this would not work on an R52? It has the same SATA bridge as a T43.

[Johan]

Johan, thanks for your continued support on this forum and for your informative posts/threads. Question, do you see any reason why this would not work on an R52? It has the same SATA bridge as a T43.

Harry: Thank you very much for your kind words - I'm certainly most flattered! Unfortunately, to speak the truth (not that I usually don't do this, but just to emphasize!), I have relatively little "in-depth", personal technical knowledge about ThinkPad's... Much - or actually most - of what I know is in reality what I have learned through this outstanding forum, so thank you everybody who have contributed to my continued ThinkPad-education during the last few years; without all the knowledge shared here I had been even more unlearned!

If you however take a critical look at many of my posts, you will soon realize that most of what I do is sort of "relaying" information which is already available elsewhere on this forum; I don't really contribute with much news or insight or knowledge which stems from my own part. Anyway, much of what is being asked here is best/most easily answered by pointing to prior posts... since by far the most issues have already been discussed previously, and many users seems to be too lazy to try searching for themselves, and often just start off by asking - without looking a little on their own, first. Anyway, if my posts are helpful to someone, that's the bottom line of all of it - so I'm simply paying back in this way, sharing with others what others have earlier shared with me. And I absolutely like doing this, and I like spending the time doing it, owing to the very serious and mature nature and tone of this forum and amongst (by far most of) the members meeting here. And kindly allow me also take this opportunity to thank the admin's and moderators of this forum for setting and continuously keeping such high standards - it is a pleasure "being" here.

All this said to explain why I don't want to try to answer your answer as a person who thinks he knows something about this issue; because I don't know anymore than what I have read in the threads referenced to above. I have, however, tried to dive down into your question, and have spent a good deal of time Google'ing around (on this forum and outside), but nothing useful came up.

In the case I had been the late Sherlock Holmes, I would probably have said something about "from logical deduction" it is obvious that your suggestion appears to be very well justified - but I wouldn't dare issuing any warranty! But: If the PATA-to-SATA bridge in R52's is the same as in T43's, and if the T43 UltraBay will fit in a R52, then the "T60-modified-for-T43-UltraBay" also ought to fit in a R52... and in other words your suggestion is indeed very clever, my dear Dr. Watson!

But - to establish a final proof of the validity of this theory, there seems to be one way to follow: Go do it, Harry! Or... easier and cheaper and less troublesome for you: Bring out this question in the ThinkPad R, A and G Series-forum... perhaps there is some other R52-owner who is willing to try it out? To get something going soon, try post a new thread in the R, A and G Series-forum, entitled: "HUGE performance increase easily possible in R52's!!" and put out the suggestion - the title ought to give a few hits!

Sorry that I'm no cleverer than what I am - I wish I were!

Best regards, and again thank you for the kind criticism,

Johan

[sikpupy]

"If you want to search for information in this forum yourself, try this page! I absolutely recommend it!"

Johan, ur too funny dude! I mean, what are you really trying to say?

[Patrik28]

BTW, how do you have modified T60-UltraBay adapter to fit T43? Is it a big operation? I'm just thinking to buy T60 adapter.

[Harryc]

This thread discusses the modification that you are asking about -
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=