R52, bigger HDD and Error 2010

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bushtor · #1 Post by **bushtor** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:53 am

Hi,

I have a R52 1846 with 60 gig HDD. As my drive had become crammed I went out and purchased a WD1600BEVE 160Gig drive.

I copied my current disk image over to the new drive and booted. Up came a weird 'Error 2010' message about upgrading the drive BIOS.

As notebooks started to come with automatic HDD recognition several years before my R52 was manufacturated I never dreamt of getting problems by using a non-IBM drive with my computer.

But now I realize that this is a known issue, and I have tried to find if there is any possibility to use my drive - without any luck.

Does anyone here have any (good/bad) news on this issue, any upgraded BIOS giving R52 owners free choice of HDD?

If not, what is the largest HDD known to install/work correctly with my R52 1846...

Thanks a lot for comments and help

best regards

Tor

basketb · #2 Post by **basketb** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:06 am

what is said here about the T43 is also true for your R52.

ajkula66 · #3 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:43 am

Try Fujitsu 120GB hard drives, I've installed dozens of them in T43s with no error.

bushtor · #4 Post by **bushtor** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:01 pm

Exactly which Fujitsu model and version..?

I don't want to buy another drive which gives me a 2010

Tor

ajkula66 · #5 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:04 pm

Here you go:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=100124

Blonde Guy · #6 Post by **Blonde Guy** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:02 am

I've got a T43 2668-46U that I decided to upgrade the hard drive.

I used a Western Digital 250 GB drive (WD2500BEVE from NewEgg). It works perfectly, except for giving error 2010 on boot up. I've set BIOS to ignore the error, but I'd love to eliminate the message and the two loud beeps on startup.

Any ideas how to proceed?

sjthinkpader · #7 Post by **sjthinkpader** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:27 pm

It will be hard to eliminate 2010 error for WD drives as they were never EOM drives for IBM/Lenovo in any version. Some members were able to clone Hitachi firmware to look like OEM drives.

I am using mostly WD drives now and other than the pause at boot and beeps, they work fine.

sodapopdima · #8 Post by **sodapopdima** » Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:22 pm

As of November 2010, the infamous 2010 error has finally been defeated by a user TTAV134 (whom deserves much respect for this).

The updated firmware with solution is also on latest thinkwiki with download links. I was able to finally get rid of that annoying startup message on my old R52.

Just thought I would put some closure to this thread

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