Can I use my old X40 Hard Drive on X41?

[Smith Pumpy]

Hi,

Need some help on this one.

I have Hitachi Travelstar hard drive (40 GB) that worked great on my X40. In swithcing it to an X41 shell, it didn't work.

1. At first the X41 informed me that I needed to update the Firmware for the Hard Drive.

I updated the firmware using the ISO firmware updated from the Lenovo site and now I get the Blue Screen of Death with each boot.

But, if I pop the same hard drive into the X40, it works perfectly.

Any thoughts?!

Thanks

[boon]

did you only try boot to window install? I believe you do need to reinstall window if you wanna put the hd in the x41.

[MagicBoy]

Is it a 0x000007B STOP error? If so it's usually the HDD controllers. Boot the drive in the X40 then update the IDE Controller to use the standard PCI IDE controller. Shutdown then try in the X41.

Not tried this before on an X40-X41, but it's worked on various other PCs and laptops.

[marker]

I thought that X41 used SATA drive and X40 a PATA drive. I have not chekked the plug in my X41, by my OS reconices the X41 drive as as SATA drive. My X40 is a normal PATA.