How do you install a new hard drive in a IBM thinkpad 600e laptop?

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I have a Ibm thinkpad 600e laptop and I just bought a new hard drive for it. How do I install the new one and is there anyway I can get XP off of my old hard drive to install it to the new one if I don’t have the XP disk?

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Aaron A said:

Here are a number of links related to the query 600e hard drive

Here is a specific document for changing a hard drive on a 600e machine.

Tansferring the OS won’t work. You’ll need a bootable XP disk to install the an OS on your new hard drive.

- 30 December 2008 at 7:13 pm

robin_graves said:

Just note on getting the exact information from your old drive to a new drive… Manufacturers like maxtor have a built in hard disk copy program in their MAXBLAST utilities, as do many other hard disk companies. You have to get the disks working on the same computer though… and only the newest widescreen laptops have 2 harddrives! You can use a utility from the manufacturer, like MAXBLAST to copy the entire contents to a new drive, by getting asmall laptop-to-IDE
converter and plugging in the drive to a Desktop, and running the program from a floppy ( newer versions allow you to run in windows, iff you don’t boot from the new drive).
you could copy the image to a big drive in your DESKTOP, and then, put in your other new laptop drive, and copy the image back to the new laptop drive.
If you got 2 cable converters, you could plug both the old and the new laptop drives, say as master and slave on the
cable normally connected to the 2 CD ROMS, and run the programs. Another approach is to use a program like Norton GHOST, and make a CD ‘IMAGE of the first drive. Then install th esecond drive, and use a floppy with GHOST on it to copy the CD to the NEW drive.
Partition Magic may also help you get an image of the first drive….
If you have a CD burner, and the information fits on a standard CD ( the image is compressed to 1/2 the size of the original data, so that with 700 megs, you are copying 1.4 gig… ) If you have a DVD burner, then you you can copy
about twice as much information as the DVD burner capability,
depending on whether it is dual or single layered…
You can also copy the Partion magic, or GHOST image, or
other similar utility’s image, to an ETHERNET connected harddrive, and use GHOST or whatever to copy the entire contents back to the laptop. ( It is a bit difficult to do unless you are network guru ). You could also copy the image to an EXTERNAL harddrive attached to the laptop, and then copy the image back…

If I were you, I would ask around at local laptop repair shops, to get their input on what they use and recommend to quickly replicate laptop harddrive contents…

hope this gives you a few more ideas to play with…

robin

- 1 January 2009 at 8:33 pm

vijay m said:

Thx for the preceeding submissions folks…
Here is what i have to resolve::
600e with NEW formated 20GB toshiba HDD
changed CIMOS battery to elliminate the error codes I was getting to reset time n date(that is fine now)
window ex starts OK after c
initial system chk that shows Toshiba in the scan procedure while installing files..
accept aggreement and press F8..
then the prompt comes window could not find HDD on the computer? window was not installed?
follow up attempts with same results
test shows HDD present
reseat the HDD try again then get error:: sbp2port.sys is corrupt
it’s hit n miss to load window files/

Any prompt help will be much appreciated..thanks ahead..

- 16 February 2010 at 7:59 am

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