Hello, I just wanted to report that I was able to upgrade my T61p (Model 6459-CTO) successfully with a 750GB 5400RPM WDC Scorpio Blue hard disk drive, model WD7500BPVT, which I purchased from NewEgg for around $120.
This is one of the new "Advanced Format" hard disk drives that uses a sector size of 4KiB (4,096 bytes), as opposed to the 512 byte sectors which are commonly used on most hard disk drives today. Interestingly, the drive's label warns XP users of this, and recommends they visit http://wdc.com/advformat first to obtain special disk partitioning/resizing tools. Windows Vista and Windows 7 do utilize the drive without requiring special software. I created a small 48GB partition and successfully installed and updated Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64 with no problems. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
