How to swap out a hard drive on a T61

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Dead1nside · #1 Post by **Dead1nside** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:50 am

I was wandering if anyone has the link to the service videos at Lenovo where they show you how to do such things?

Also, I'm buying a brand new T61 soon but it only has the 80GB 5400RPM HDD I want to swap it with a new 200GB 7200RPM drive apart from the physical swapping how can I get the recovery partition and Vista Business over to the new hard drive?

I've already preformatted the 200GB drive to NTFS and am currently using it in an external caddy, does this matter?

Thank-you for your help in advance.

#2 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:57 am

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67869

Dead1nside · #3 Post by **Dead1nside** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:00 am

Thank-you, do you happen to know the link to the flash videos as well? I've been racking my brain try to find them again - a really good service in my opinion.

Also, what about the software issues? Do I just make some recovery CDs and boot the new hard drive with them?

Thanks.

#4 Post by **Harryc** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:04 am

Make the recovery discs first, then use them to reload the new drive. Don't erase or sell the old drive until you are done. I have not seen T61 movies.

Dead1nside · #5 Post by **Dead1nside** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:16 am

Brilliant, thanks again.

Dead1nside · #6 Post by **Dead1nside** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:17 am

In case anyone else is trying to find these videos which show you the procedures laid out in the Hardware Maintenance Manuals the link is -

http://www.lenovoservicetraining.com/io ... index.html

hellosailor · #7 Post by **hellosailor** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:07 pm

Harry, what about using Acronis TrueImage (even the free trial version) to image the internal drive to an external one (USB or caddy) and then just swapping the drives?

For a one-shot, shouldn't that do just as well?

#8 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:17 pm

Yes, that will work just fine.

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