On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:17, R. Mueller wrote:
> Does anybody know how to get a Toshiba 4010CDT to accept a larger hard
> disk.
> I also
> would be happier to find a way to alter the BIOS and buy a HDD locally,
> though I did find one company offering hard disks which they suggest will
> work with the 4010CDT, while giving no clue that they in some way deal with
> the BIOS problem.
www.shoptoshiba.com indicates that Toshiba has up to a 60 Gigabyte drive
upgrade that is compatible with the Satellite 4010CDT. I got there from
a link on www.csd.toshiba.com , in case you were interested...
So as long as you got your BIOS updated to 8.20 (found at
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/1400cv82.exe)
you should be ok with going to your local computer store and getting a
2.5 inch hard drive up to 60 GB in capacity, and putting it into the
little "carrier" thingamabob the original drive came in, and there you
go... They want $379 for the 60 GB one, though... It comes with a 3 year
warranty, so it might be ok...
ENU (www.enuinc.com) in Portland has 20, 30, 40 and 60 GB laptop drives
in stock, from $106 to $175...
Before purchasing, you should get the original drive out of the laptop,
open the carrier, and see where the mounting screws that mount the drive
to the carrier are located. OLDER ones have the mounting holes in the
corners of the drive, newer ones have them in towards the middle of the
sides of the drives. Yours is probably a newer one.
TTFN
Andrew
Received on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 20:47:31 GMT