T30 hard drive upgrade - not recognized

[bosco]

I'm trying to upgrade a 20gb hard drive in a T30 to a 40gb Western Digital WD400UE. I used Acronis Easy Migrate and it cloned the 20gb to the 40gb ok. However, when I put the 40gb drive in and reboot the drive is not recognized.

The bios was 2.03b and embedded controller was 1.03. I updated both to 2.10 and 1.07, but still, the drive is not being recognized.

The drive is a good drive. I put it in a USB enclosure and connect it and all the data is there.

Does the T30 have any hard drive restrictions like the T43? Could it be a corrupt MBR? Any ideas?

[bosco]

Never mind. I just found this post via Google.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=31542

Looks like I need to use True Image instead of Easy Migrate and change the partitions manually.

[bosco]

This did not work for me. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[RealBlackStuff]

Did you put the caddy on the HD before you put it in the T30?
If not, the pins will not slot in properly.

[robert213]

Did you put the caddy on the HD before you put it in the T30?
If not, the pins will not slot in properly.

Misalligned/bent pins on a new HD are not much fun to straighten.

I accidentally bent the pins on my new HD, because I tried to force the harddrive caddy into my machine. The HDD should slide in and out fairly easily.

[bosco]

Did you put the caddy on the HD before you put it in the T30?
If not, the pins will not slot in properly.

I did put the caddy on before putting the hard drive in. The problem was the hard drive cover. There's a little bit of play between the cover and the hard drive, so I don't think the hard drive was being pushed in all the way.

I took the cover off and pushed the drive in all the way and it worked. I then pushed the cover on, had to force it a little, and all seems good now.

[madkat]

place a small rubber piece (the kind that the laptop's feet are made of) between the cover and the hdd - i've done so on my former T30 - and it worked perfectly