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Recently picked up 3 T400s TPs, two have screen issues--none have hard drives. These are outfitted with the 1.8 Sata II HDDs and when I saw the price these are going for--that was a shock to the system. No wonder these were discarded from use. I'm sure someone in IT made some nice money selling those on fleabay.
I guess fleabay will be the place to go for an HDD and HDD cover. Anyone have recovery discs for these? Was W8 an option for this particular model? I don't see a COA so I'm presuming W7 or W8 were options for OS.
Thanks!

Good to see you back, it's been a while.

No W7 or W8 for these machines, XP and Vista only.

Do yourself a favour and get a SSD, Crucial C300 can still be found NOS in the 1.8" guise, and it's a very fine drive.

I duck in every now and again lol...

When I go home I'm going to pull a battery out of one of these to see whether there's a COA there.
These machines seem fairly new, suprising Lenovo would install XP on them. Dual Core Centrino Vpro 2.4 in these, P9400, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, SSD too? For XP, that's overkill in the extreme. I'll report back if there's any COA in the battery tray.
I'll also try searching for the SSD you recommended. After seeing some in the $100s range, I may put these on the backburner. I think I can run a 2.5 sata in the untrabay but i hate to give up my dvd player.

FWIW, Lenovo was selling T410/510 with XP and Vista, alongside W7.

You may want to look into a mSATA SSD + adapter. All 1.8" HDDs are *painfully* slow...that machine deserves better, as do you...

Anything to ditch the 1.8 SSD would be a plus, but I don't want to lose the DVD drive--in fact I'd love to find a blue ray to fit in that ultrabay.
This devise, mSATA SSD + adapter, with this I can fit a 2.5 SSD in the space allocated for the 1.8 SSD?
I don't mind a little cut and paste if need be. What goes on behind the SSD cover stays behind the SSD cover.

Thedaddy wrote: This devise, mSATA SSD + adapter, with this I can fit a 2.5 SSD in the space allocated for the 1.8 SSD?

No. You need a mSATA SSD like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820148613

and an appropriate adapter.

That looks like a wireless card. rofl. And they are getting 256G out of one of those. Un--flippin-believable.
I'm so far behind technology I'll never catch up. That's why I come here.
That would surely fit in the 1.8 inch drive slot.

My T400s came with W7 and downgrade to XP. I eventually went back to W7 and loved the T400s, used it daily for almost 3 years. There are recovery media for T400s W7, I had 2 sets.

mpcook wrote:My T400s came with W7 and downgrade to XP. I eventually went back to W7 and loved the T400s, used it daily for almost 3 years. There are recovery media for T400s W7, I had 2 sets.

I stand corrected. Thanks Mike!

1.8 inch SSDs are fast IMO. I don't know how good are the ones Lenovo put in these laptops, but I have a Kingston in my T410s and laptop boots in 12 seconds. Yes, it's SATA II, but it's still a SSD.

The COA on a T400s is supposed to be in the battery bay.

Found the COAs under the battery. All are W7 Pro and are lenovo stickers. W7 must have been optional in these.
At this point Im needing some recovery disks, and im still contemplating what to do with the hard drive. The mSata and 1.8 ssd are about the same price. Leaning towards mSata there is an adapter for these for the same location as the 1.8 drive. Ill try marketplace for the recovery disks.

pm sent.

mpcook wrote:pm sent.

Reply PM sent, Thank you!

I have a W7 pro ISO I can give you if you need it. Got it from digitial river in the day. It's an actual MS os installation iso, of which you'd need to use the serial key as found on your COA sticker