Wrong replacement hard drive for a T40

[Knoxes]

I believe, even after doing what I thought was sufficient research on here, that I've bought the wrong replacement product. I have a T40 23736U0.

I bought one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P8 ... ss_product

Unfortunately, I've already EZ cloned it. I didn't think to pull the original out and check compatibility before I cloned the new drive. First, is there anything I can do with this new drive other than use it as a backup? Secondly, I would sincerely appreciate someone pointing out where I went wrong (still haven't figured that out) and I would really appreciate some explicit instructions on what to buy - I need about 100-160G.

[craigmontHunter]

Welcome to the forum,

You bought a SATA drive, the t4x use the older PATA/EIDE interface. Your best bet would be to pick up a 20$ external enclosure and use it as a backup drive.

Any PATA drive will work, it is the older standard.

Good luck

[ajkula66]

Furthermore, you can pick up a SATA Ultrabay Slim adapter on eBay and use that drive in the media drive slot.

[Knoxes]

Ok, don't know how I missed the PATA/SATA thing.

so this one will work, correct?

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-W ... 078&sr=1-1

[ajkula66]

No, that's a desktop drive...

Pick one from here:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList3.jsp

[Knoxes]

Geez - trying to do this and watch a basketball game at the same time - not a good idea!

Ordered from Zipzoomfly:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... t=celebros

Thanks for all your help guys.