laptop hard drive upgrade advice

[brettsinger]

Looking to upgrade the HD on my Thinkpad T40 (40 GB isn't getting it done). Anyone have any advice on a brand, and also on an upgrade strategy? I'd rather re-install Windows but that might not be possible right away, so image cloning would be needed. Thanks and happy holidays.

 

[BadBigBen]

Upgrading should be straight forward...

as to imaging: you can use a commercial imager such as GHOST, or Acronis True Image... or use the freeware version of GHOST...
FOG - Free, Open-Source Imaging Solution

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost

Hardware: just make sure that the drive you wish to purchase has the correct interface, and I believe the T40 has the IDE44 standard (no SATA yet)...

The following is just an exsample:

Western Digital Scorpio 120GB Mobile Hard Drive - ATA-100, 5400, 8MB, OEM

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3435033&sku=W10-7116

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[kestrel1]

I would go for WD, Seagate or Maxtor
Acronis True Image would be my choice for imaging the old drive.