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giasoldacastlar · #1 Post by **giasoldacastlar** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:30 am

Hello everybody,

sorry to bother you with such a silly question, but I just bough on ebay a ThinkPad 2nd Hard Drive Adapter for Ultrabay Slim P/N 62P4553. On the box it says it was manufactured on june 2006.

When I opened the package I realize that it contained only the bare adapter without any cloning software or manual as advertized on this page: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46455

I was just wandering what you actually received with your adapter if you bought one. Which kind of software was supposedly included? Should the adapter have a top cover or should I always be able to "see" the hard drive?

Thank you very much for the answers!

losmeme · #2 Post by **losmeme** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:13 am

Hi;

Not sure about the software, mine came bare also. But I already had Ghost.

Yes, you are supposed to see the top of the drive when it is mounted in the carrier. It is simplicity defined getting the hard drive in and out of the carrier. Makes it easy to use this with several hard drives.

Just pull back the little plastic bar at the front of the carrier, set the hard drive down into the carrier, and then slide the hard drive onto the pins at the back of the carrier making sure not to crimp or bind them. Once the hard drive is mounted on the pins, snap the little plastic bar back into place to secure the hard drive into the carrier.

IMO the best UltraBay device out there!

agarza · #3 Post by **agarza** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:50 pm

I bought one brand new and it came with a diskette to make backup, and the manual on how to operate and install it. Nothing more.

christopher_wolf · #4 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:19 pm

From IBM/Lenovo, it should contain the adapter itself, cloning/replication software on a floppy, and a manual giving instructions on how to use the hardware and diskette.

bontistic · #5 Post by **bontistic** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:56 am

Yes, I bought one from Lenovo and received the following:

Bay Adapter
Backup Software in Floppy Disk
Instructions
and Drive Pouch

There will be no top cover and the empty slot will barely fit your 2.5" 9.5mm hard disk. There is a black latch that you should lift prior to inserting the disk and once fully inserted, close the latch to lock the hard disk's position

#6 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:00 am

I believe it was around the beginning of the year that I bought the 2nd Hard Drive Adapter for my T42. It came with the cloning software and was advertised as such. This summer I was looking at the purchase page for this adapter and I saw no reference to the cloning software. This made me wonder if Lenovo had removed it from the package. Your post makes me think that Lenovo has removed it.

EDIT: After rereading your post, I see you bought it from ebay. Maybe I jumped the gun with my conclusion - then again, maybe not.

christopher_wolf · #7 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:17 pm

From the latest adapters I have received, it seems not to be the case that Lenovo has pulled the software on the diskette from the package. The one for my personal T43 had it and several I received a month ago had it.

chan_man · #8 Post by **chan_man** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:15 pm

I also just got another HDD adapter for my T41 directly from Lenovo (shipped from Hong Kong) and it had the diskette in it. This was 3 weeks ago.

giasoldacastlar · #9 Post by **giasoldacastlar** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:40 am

Thanks everybody for the aswers. It seems that either what I received is a replacement part or just a clone. Unfortunately, when I bought it on ebay, the picture of the IBM sealed package looked original enough to me. Even more confusing, the guy who sold it was also selling a lot of other spare parts among which I bough a screw set for the T42 (FRU P/N 13R2916) which looks original to me.

Is the cloning software good? Did you use it? Do you think there's a chance to have it from IBM?

Thanks

Happy holiday season to everybody!

#10 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:30 am

The cloning software works fine, but requires a floppy drive to run. I already had an external IBM USB drive, so that wasn't a problem for me. The software was from Apricorn IIRC. It's possible that they ship the software on CD by now, as I bought my 2nd hard drive adapter about a year ago.

wolfman · #11 Post by **wolfman** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:16 am

Interesting. I ordered mine direct from IBM and it came with the adapter, manual and the software on a floppy disk - but no case...which would've been quit handy.

giasoldacastlar · #12 Post by **giasoldacastlar** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:17 am

Thanks,

Was the software this one:
http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail. ... eg&id=1180?
Unfortunately, it's now discontinued or provided only with hardware. Moreover, from this post http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=apricorn, it seems that the software allows only ten cloning operations.

Is there anybody, who didn't use the software, willing to sell the software for a symbolic ammount? Alternatively also a good suggestion on a cheap cloning software would be welcomed (apart from Ghost). The floppy is not a problem for me as I have an external IBM drive.

#13 Post by **draco2527** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:47 pm

Yes, the cloning software is provided by Apricorn!

The diskette's come with 10 licenses, you use 1 license everytime you clone. I should have a few diskettes around with at least 2 or 3 licenses left on them.PM me with your address and I will try to ship it out Tuesday of next week.

giasoldacastlar · #14 Post by **giasoldacastlar** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:21 am

Thanks! PM sent.

#15 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:43 am

draco2527 wrote:The diskette's come with 10 licenses, you use 1 license everytime you clone.

According to pae77 in the thread below, the above statement is not entirely accurate.

pae77 wrote:NO. It's NOT a 10 COPY limitation. It's 10 DIFFERENT drives. Each time you clone to a different drive, the target drive serial is written to the floppy somewhere so the program knows how many different drives it has been used to clone to. You get to use it with up to 10 DIFFERENT drives. But once the drive is "licensed" you can use it an unlimited number of times with that drive.

I have been using the program to make weekly backups to the same drive for many months. Each time I start a cloning operation the program reports "Drive already licensed, 9 licenses remaining."

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 5&start=30

giasoldacastlar · #16 Post by **giasoldacastlar** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:20 am

draco2527, did you get my PM?

Now that I understand a bit better the IBM jargon, I'm quite sure that what I got is just a Service part FRU numbers, which comes with no other materials and not an option part.

In fact, on the box I have "FRU/CRU 2nd HDD adapter: 62P4553" while the option part number would have been 62P4554. What a pity.

ThinkPad 2nd Hard Drive Adapter package content

ThinkPad 2nd Hard Drive Adapter package content

It might just be a spare part or a clone

It's now out of sale...

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