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I have T60 (2623-D7U) that originally had a 100GB hard drive. Yesterday, I upgraded it with a Hitachi 160GB 5400RPM drive (HTS541616J9SA00). This drive was not recognized by the Windows installer, so I had to change the SATA mode to "compatibility" from "AHCI," and successfully installed the Windows.

After reading the posts here, I can set the SATA mode back to AHCI by installing "Intel Matrix driver (version 5.5.2.1003)" from the Lenovo website. I tried to install the driver, but Windows gave me a "warning" message saying that "this driver may not be compatible with your drive, and may make your drive stop working." This kinda scared me; because this 160GB drives are not used by Lenovo, I thought it might not be compatiable with this driver, and could cause some problem (non-functioning HD is a BIG problem, especially I had to spend an entire day to set it up).

Is there anyone who successfully installed this driver on the Hitachi 160GB drive? Did anyone experience any problem?

I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks!!!

Hi, it is not a lenovo driver but an intel driver and you can download a newer version from there website.
If you want AHCI you must install the driver and there is no reason not to.
just ignore the error message, even if i can't remember getting it,
my harddrive even runs without any problems in compatible mode and ahci drivers installed (if i forget to revert the bios setting).

cu