HD crapped out! :-(

[g8r1fl]

I have a TP z60m and have been very happy with it. This morning out of nowhere it started making loud noises and stopped working. Hard reset and it never recovered. I just bought a 320GB Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 to replace the 80GB that came with my TP. My questions is will i be able to use my restore CD's to restore everything even though the HD sizes differ?

I was going to buy directly from Lenovo but it was going to take about a week and a half to get it. I was concerned about the APS but read a post that it will still work with aftermarket HD.

Thanks for the help.

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

Your restore disks will work on any size hard drive, and you bought a very good one in my opinion.

Good luck.

[g8r1fl]

Thanks for the quick answer and welcome. Is there any way for me to try to salvage some data from the bad drive? I have a backup but it's been a few months unfortunately.

[ZaZ]

You could buy the ultrabay or an external case to put the drive and see if you can get any data off that way.

[ajkula66]

Furthermore, you can boot from a "live" Linux CD and save the important files to an USB flash drive.