Re: [Thinkpad] 770 ED: hard disk to go in floppy drive slot.

I don't think an Ultrabay 2nd hdd adapter is going to help because its a
770 and they don't use ultrabay. Also, why would you need an extra
drive caddy? Just use the one on the old laptop.

My 2 cents,
Jim

Rob Bell wrote:
> Michael,
>
> You need two things: A Ultrabay 2nd HDD adapter, which is basically a
> plastic adapter the size of the Ultrabay that a HDD fits into (see
> example at:
> http://www.xtradisk.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=329&sid=8y4GGl0lj0SoDAW).
> You also need drive caddy. This is the small metal part that fits over
> a bare laptop HDD and provides the appropriate plug as well as a tab
> that you can use to pull the drive out. The adapter is usually about
> $40-60 depending on where you find it and if it is new or used. I don't
> know prices of the caddy. You might be able to try contacting Bill
> Morrow (www.thinkpads.com) from this list to help you find these items.
>
> As to your other questions:
> - IBM should be happy to sell just the 2nd HDD adapter, though at list
> price. They might have the drive caddy too, but I'd try to find another
> source.
> - As far as brands of accessories go, any name brand of laptop hard
> disk should be fine. You're just looking for a 2.5" drive and the
> height doesn't matter because the 770 can take them all the way up to
> 17mm or so, which is old technology.
>
> HTH,
> Rob
>
>
> mje@foxall.com.au wrote:
>
>> I would appreciate any answers to a few questions that may seem
>> too obvious
>> to need asking, but to which I've bafflingly received conflicting
>> answers from
>> people I've asked. I'll put each broad category of question in a
>> separate
>> posting.
>>
>> I have a 770 ED which is about 6 years old, and it has a (nearly)
>> 8-Gb.
>> hard disk which is getting full; I need to get a new, larger disk, but
>> preferably in a configuration such that I can simultaneously use the
>> old disk,
>> copy from one disk to the other, and the like. I've been told that it is
>> possible to get a hard disk that will fit into the slot where the
>> floppy disk
>> drive is (and where a D.V.D. drive can also go). But the obstacle
>> seems to be
>> this: while I can get the disk drive itself (I've been told), it
>> appears to be
>> very difficult to get the special little box it must go in, maybe
>> impossible.
>> To be sure, the current hard disk has a box, but I need another
>> box for two
>> reasons: (1) so I can use both disks at once; and (2) presumably the
>> box would
>> have to be a different one to go in the floppy disk slot instead of
>> the hard
>> disk slot on the other side of the laptop.
>> I can get the disk from I.B.M. along with the box, but very
>> expensively,
>> whereas I have found various dealers who can supply a disk drive for a
>> fraction
>> of the price, but they can't supply the box.
>> There are reasons why I don't merely want to get a hard disk that
>> can
>> *replace* the current one, mainly relating to the fact that I will
>> have at least
>> a fairly long transitional period when I have to be able to move stuff
>> from one
>> drive to the other. Alternating the drives in the same slot would not
>> allow
>> this; and I have also been told that it's a bad idea to take those
>> drives in and
>> out of the slot too often, because with the slightest clumsiness in
>> changing the
>> drives you can break the little pin connection sockets where the drive
>> connects
>> to the computer, and that might cause the complete loss of data on
>> that drive.
>> That's why I want the new drive to go where the floppy drive and
>> D.V.D.
>> drive currently go.
>>
>> Can anyone please make suggestions on how to deal with this?
>> Would I.B.M. be likely to supply the box by itself? I somehow
>> feel they
>> wouldn't, because they would know I intended to get the disk from
>> someone else,
>> not them, and of course they would not want to encourage that.
>> Are there other sources for the box?
>> Should I take seriously the warning from I.B.M. I once read
>> against using
>> any other brand of accessories with the laptop other than their own?
>> Are there
>> good reasons for this, or is it just an attempt to persuade people to
>> buy only
>> I.B.M. equipment, and pay their prices?
>> My thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Edwards.
>
>
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