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87325is · #1 Post by **87325is** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:59 pm

I just ordered a t60 but i want to get a 100 7k hard drive. I would hate to spend 400 on it from lenovo when it seems i can get it off the web for 200. has any one upgraded their hard drive yet? is it like the t4x and you need to modify the firmware?

Thankss for any help.

Jared

RaysMD · #2 Post by **RaysMD** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:34 pm

I'm sure it's pretty easy to do. No one has reported any problems yet. Contact this guy, and see if he did the upgrade.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=22152

deforest · #3 Post by **deforest** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:54 pm

I replaced my drive with the hitachi 7k100.

I replaced the drive and installed the os, and everything seemed fine.

Then I ran a disk defragmentation program and got bsod with ftdisk.sys.

On reboot, chkdsk ran and found a bunch of ugly errors.

I rebooted and used the bios hard test test, and it got a read error, so the disk failed.

I then went to hitachi web site and downloaded their hard drive test tool, and ran that.

It found that the disk had errors on it and offered 2 options to repair, replace bad sectors or erase disk. I chose the first option and it was unable to complete. I reran the tests and then chose the 2nd option.

I reran the bios disk test and the hitachi tests and both of them passed this time.

I reinstalled the os and ran the disk defragmentor and this time it completed.

So the moral of the story is before you start using the disk, you should run some tests to make sure it is okay.

I suspect that something happened during shipping which caused the failure, and the hitatchi disk tool was able to map out the bad sectors from being used.

astro · #4 Post by **astro** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:27 pm

I can't say I've had a drive with bad sectors in a while (touch wood), but, from previous experience, I would say that bad sectors only get worse -- as in they probably reflect the build quality of the platter or something and have a high likelihood of recurring elsewhere in the drive.

Brand new with bad sectors? Return it.

christopher_wolf · #5 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:58 pm

If you can repeatably demonstrate bad sectors on a new HDD, you have every reason to return it under warranty for a refund or replacement.

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