T60p HD Changeout

[Mic1]

I purchased a 160gb 7200 HD from Lenovo this week, should be arriving in a couple days. I have a set of recovery disks for the notebook. Should I just use them to format the new drive and install the OS? Vista Ultimate is installed on existing HD.

Thx,
Mic1

[Brad]

My suggestion is that if you want to save yourself a day of configuring your T60p use Acronis True Image or another cloning program.

Use a USB enclosure to connect the new drive to the T60p.

Brad

[pae77]

Another alternative is to purchase and use Lenovo's ultrabay slim serial ata hard drive adapter which enables one to slide a laptop hard drive in the ultrabay slot where the optical drive usually resides. This adapter is not very expensive and makes it easy to run two drives in your laptop at once. Not sure if the transfer rate from the ultrabay is faster than USB or not, but it is very convenient for drive cloning and backup.

[mdclow]

I used the ultrabay sata HDD adapter to clone a 120 GB HDD (90GB full) 5400 to a new 200GB 7200 HDD and it took about an hour with Acronis 11.