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Upgrading headaches

I picked up a Hitachi 80 GB 2.5″ hard disk for my Thinkpad R51 laptop. The only problem - my laptop doesn’t recognize the disk. On the other hand, it does work beautifully with the USB enclosure that I bought to keep the old 40 GB disk in…

The laptop is a 2887-NQ7 model. So now, my questions to the world.

  1. Do you have any idea of what problem could cause the laptop to not recognize the disk, and if so, how to fix it?
  2. Is there a way to install Linux on the external USB disk, and to boot from the disk at powerup?

Update: I think I should have made this point more clear. I tried to replace the primary hard disk (40 GB) with the new one (80 GB). But the laptop does not detect the 80 GB disk in the IDE bay. However, it has no problems when I installed it in the USB drive case.

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One Response to “Upgrading headaches”

  1. Kishore Says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 11:32 pm

    Hey nirenjan,
    i think the problem is the master slave option that is there in any hard disk you buy. You must put the second hard disk in slave mode and then connect it to the laptop. Check for instructions top of the drive.