Re: [Thinkpad] A20 lost its hard drive

A 2.5" laptop hard drive is a standard component. Various laptops that
I've seen from IBM, Dell, and Toshiba seem to all use these drives.
What is unique to each system is the drive enclosure wrapped around the
standard 2.5" drive. IBM typically puts on a little metal tray and a
piece of plastic on the outer end of the drive as a handle or cover.
Dell has similar plastic on the outer end and a custom pin adapter on
the connector side. I'm not sure what Toshiba does.

Basically what you have to do is remove the drive from the system and
remove any attached enclosure. All this takes is a small phillips
screwdriver. Do this for both systems, then you can swap enclosures and
try the suspect drive in the working system (or vice versa). The
identical situation is true if you're talking about modular bay 2nd HDD
adapters too. Each manufacturer has their own angle on how the bare
2.5" drive is wrappered and connected, but inside the 2.5" drives are
all the same.

Rob

Julian Thomas wrote:

> In <411A22C3.5010706@mailworks.org>, on 08/11/04
> at 08:44 AM, Rob Bell <RobDBell@mailworks.org> typed:
>
>
>>The simplest way to troubleshoot is to swap drives between systems.
>>Putting a known-good drive into the A20 would identify whether or not
>>the controller is happy. Putting the A20 drive into another laptop
>>would identify whether the drive works. Either method will get the
>>answer - just depends which swap is easier. Of course having two
>>systems to do this with isn't always possible. Sorry I'm not much more
>>help, but I always have several systems to work with.
>
>
> Yes. Doesn't seem to be an option, unless the drive would fit in a
> Toshiba laptop.
>

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Received on Wed Aug 11 10:18:44 2004