t 22 max hard drive size?

[t-rex]

hello,
first post. have been using another computer forum that is very good with some really smart people there. but it is general computing not thinkpad specific. this is great!!!! as i kicked the desk top to the curb years ago. (still have it,just limited use)
any way i'm rambling. what i need to know is i have a t 22
20g hd
384 ram
win xp pro
2001 bios
i want to put in the largest hard drive it will support. been looking around but have not found out what it is.
new egg has a 120g for $93 u.s. this is what i want to do but will it work?

thank's in advance for all replies
t-rex

[Purcy]

Hello there, I may be wrong but I think it is a 60GB, which I'm putting in mine next month. Welcome.

[tfflivemb2]

As long as the drive is a 9.5mm height PATA drive, it will work in the T22. You can go up to the largest drive size that they make. (right now, around 160GB).

One thing to note though...make sure that you BIOS is updated to the latest version.

[Purcy]

Whoa, that's wonderful news, glad I was wrong. I may just go for an 80GB! I must have mis-heard the guy and perhaps he said 160 instead of 60GB. Thanks

[tfflivemb2]

Or maybe you thought that he said "one 60GB" drive.

For the record, I have an 80GB that was running in my T21 for a while, until I moved it to my R40.

[bigtiger]

Great news. I had thought it will not support large drives.

[Purcy]

Or maybe you thought that he said "one 60GB" drive.

For the record, I have an 80GB that was running in my T21 for a while, until I moved it to my R40.

I think you're correct. This is a friend of my husband's who owns a software/hardware computer company and will sell and do the install/transfer from old HDD to the new one. I think I mis-understood him on the size. I am now thinking about an 80GB!! Just my dear Photoshp Elements take up a whooping lot, I have not installed it yet since I have this baby drive. I am thinking of encasing the old 20GB HD and keeping it as an external drive.