T21 maximum hard drive capacity?

[doctor bloomquist]

Hi this may be an obvious q but can someone tell me the maximum size hard drive the T21 can take? 120 gb?

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[RealBlackStuff]

It can take the largest IDE/EIDE/ATA/PATA drive in 2.5" format that you can find/afford.
Just do NOT try any SATA disks.

[IBM-THINKPAD-T40]

Thank you too! i was about to buy a broken IBM ThinkPad T21 type 1132 and i was afraid that 60GB IDE hard drive that i will buy to it will not gonna work. Thank you so much! (actualy im still afraid. can you tell me if Type 1132 can recognise this 60GB drive? (2.5") and also sorry for my bad english)

[RealBlackStuff]

It may be a very old drive and should work, unless it is defective.
But if you want the best HDD for such a machine, look for the 160GB Samsung HM160HC.

[my03]

Bumping this old thread. I tried an msata in a pata enclosure today (256GB) and while the bios could identify the SSD, W98 could not reliably format the disk ( ). Maybe the practical limitation is 128GB? Either that or there is something fishy with a T21 + msata ssd/pata in combination.

[Gonzaleitor]

Bumping this old thread. I tried an msata in a pata enclosure today (256GB) and while the bios could identify the SSD, W98 could not reliably format the disk ( ). Maybe the practical limitation is 128GB? Either that or there is something fishy with a T21 + msata ssd/pata in combination.

Maybe you can try a modified windows 98 installation.
Or you can do the partitions in windows 10 (Always in FAT32 obviously) and install directly to the partitions you created. Maybe worth the try

[axur-delmeria]

Regarding Windows 98's HDD size limits, this forum thread at vogons.org might be of some use: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44423