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Hard drive swap from T410
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:04 am
by T410
My MOB seems to have died on my T410 and I'm really not in the mood for this now. Just wondering if I could seamlessly swap the 410 drive into my 430 and have it fire up with none of the troubles I'm not in the mood for, or if I could add it to the open bay and tell BIOS boot from it.. I'm guessing no, because my life is never that easy.
Re: Hard drive swap from T410
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:22 pm
by dr_st
Depending on the OS and maybe on the SATA driver. Seamlessly perhaps not, but it should be doable maybe with a small tweak.
Re: Hard drive swap from T410
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:52 pm
by T410
dr_st wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:22 pm
Depending on the OS and maybe on the SATA driver. Seamlessly perhaps not, but it should be doable maybe with a small tweak.
What kind of tweak might it need? I'm fairly clueless about these things. The drive has Linux Mint 21 for an OS.
I don't want to do anything to muck up my 430, because then I'll have nothing. But I think I'd really have to make a monumental blunder to hurt the 430 system
Re: Hard drive swap from T410
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:42 pm
by T410
No tweaks needed, worked like a charm.
However I made an unpleasant discovery. I need an ultrabay caddy, coz I couldn't put it in the extra bay without one. Oh well, they seem cheap. I guess you can also make one from an old cd drive, and I have several of those
Edit: NVM, senior moment.
I have an ultrabay caddy lol.