Hi,
got a old hard disk from T30, unit is long gone, now needs to boot from that hd to see some programs and data, putting it into another non Thinkpad pc, will ask to activate windows, if I put the HD in T420, will it still ask for activation? considering T420 has win 7 OEM. any idea? Thanks,
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Re: moving a T30 hard disk to another thinkpad
The T30 HD is IDE/PATA, the T420 needs SATA HDs, so that will not work.
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Re: moving a T30 hard disk to another thinkpad
There are some external usb boxes that takes either PATA or SATA to look into hard drive's contents.
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Re: moving a T30 hard disk to another thinkpad
I believe you can move a T30 disk to an A31 or A31p as all three use the same chipset and pretty much the same hardware (sound, graphics, etc.); however, for general data recovery you might want to invest in a USB 2.0 to PATA box (which can be found on many online retailers and auction sites); another option is to buy an UltraBay hard drive adapter (for T2x/T3x/R3x/A3x it would be UltraBay 2000, T4x/T6x UltraBay Slim, R5x/R6x UltraBay Enhanced) and put your T30's drive in it
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