Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:24:54 +1000
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - Replacment hard drive?
Any 8.5mm hard drive (yes, 8.5mm, not 9.5mm) will work straight away with
the exception that you may wish to install a drive overlay (like EZ-Bios)
to get access to more than 8GB from within DOS (opinions on this vary).
If you want to install a conventional 9.5mm hard drive you'll need to
remove some spacers from the bottom of the hard drive cavity otherwise
you'll run the risk of cracking the RAM chips off the board (they're right
above where the hard drive sits, putting a 9.5mm hard drive in without
removing the spacers warps the motherboard).
Search the archives for debates on this topic (
http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - an older one, and
http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ - a new one so I've got
no idea how far back it goes ). I seem to recall a thread titled "20 gig
Fujitsu in an overclocked L50 and working!" that might be of use to you
(there are plenty of others as well).
Have fun!
- Raymond
P.S. Welcome to the list! :-)
At 06:04 AM 12/10/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:03:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan DuQueno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Libretto 70CT - Replacment hard drive?
Hi,
New to here. Just found an old Libretto 70CT in office store room
(complete with floppy drive docking station and win 95 disks).
My aim is to install Win 95 and Doom on it. Just because I think it's cute
and i'm very bored at work (been made redundent, 3 more weeks of doing
nothing before start new job).
However I think the hard disk is dead :( says no system disk when try to
boot, the BIOS config page confirms this. However there is a 2GB drive
installed (felt very hot when I opened it up). I managed to boot off Win
95 floppy but can't install because "no hard drive".
My guess is the hard drive is dead, is there anything else that could be
causing this problem?
Are there any bios limitions on replacement drives? Can I use any 2.5"
<9.5mm laptop drive? Would a 20GB or even 40GB drive work?
Thanks
Jon D
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