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I've heard the 770Z has the 128 gig hard drive limit. Sometimes you can get around this by partitioning the drive, sometimes you can't.

I have a 320 gig in my 240, with two partitions. Windows 98SE or ME can be patched to recognize it, but not if the BIOS gets it the way. 98SE worked fine with all 320 gig on the desktop, but the 240 would not recognize any partition it didn't create itself. Windows 2000 SP4 (requires a registry mod) has no problem with both partitions, but I did have to create a small partition to install to, then fix the registry and create & format the big partition.

So it can be done - sometimes. Has anyone here tried it on a 770Z (or a 600E?)?

No problems here with a big hard drive in a 770x. Although it also has the 128GB BIOS-Limit, some Windows versions can go around the issue.
I have two 125GB partitions on the drive and they were both accessible under Windows XP SP3 and Windows 98SE (with the unofficial service pack 2.1 installed).

Thanks! A terabyte drive may seem like overkill, but I don't want to run out of room, and they're getting cheaper.

Have you ever tried one of those tiny SATA drive to IDE adapters? They look like they should fit in the 770 (or 600) series caddy. The screw holes wouldn't line up, but that shouldn't matter in the 770's. (It might be in the 600 though.)

I haven't tried any of these, but I have thought about getting an UltraBay 2000 2nd SATA HDD adapter and then taking out the guts and putting them into a spare Thinkpad 600 series 2nd HDD adapater that I have. Then I'd have a big SATA drive as a 2nd HDD. But that project stalled after I got my X60T.

Here is the kind of adapter that I was thinking of trying out:
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Phil.

I was thinking of this one:

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That looks like a better option. Let us know if you try it out!

Phil.

What about using these big drives in a 600E or 600X? It seems to have plenty of room in the caddy for the adapter; the 770's have very little room to spare.