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Ok, thanks Opovet. I will have a look.
Well, HD adapter arrived, but unfortunately it is not compatible with the thinkpad HD. Female to female connetors. boooo. :(
So, I will try the DOS Interlink program once I get the appropriate cable.
I'll letcha know how it goes...
Thanks for all the help.
Christopher
:)
The adapater should have male pins on one side for the 40 pin IDE cable and the other side should be female plug for the hard drive to plug in. Was your hard drive inside a can? If so you need to take it out.
If the pins are not clearly marked on the adapter, be very careful about pin #1 location.
found this hope it pastes correctly.
Installing your Laptop HDD Adapter
This unit will allow you to connect a laptop (2.5") Hard disk to a Desktop computer internally. For installation follow these steps.
On the Desktop Side:
Plug the IDE Ribbon with the red end towards the "1" inscription on the HDD adapter. This is opposite from the power plug.
Plug the power plug in the regular Desktop plug. Goes only one way.
On the Laptop side:
Plug the 2.5" (Laptop) HDD with the side with the label seeing the same side of the adapter that has "2.5" HDD Adapter" inscription.
On the other side there is a "Key" marking. This should correspond with the missing pin on your laptop HDD. All laptop HDD have 1 missing pin in the middle.
Note: Many HDD’s have a manufacturer specific connector on the pins of the HDD. If it seems that your connection does not match, remove that connector! All HDD’s have male pins on two rows.
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Cool, thanks Opovet!
I will look into removing the HD from its housing (or removing IBM's adapter) once I get home tonight.
Thanks again!
Christopher
:)
Once you get the top off look at the bottom of the can for any mounting screws might be four of them. I believe IBM used the cans to protect the harddrives as the IDE pins on the drive are not made strong enough fot repeated connecting. On some models the lappers have the bay where the exrta hd or battery can be plugged into the lapper.
If at some point you want to upgrade to hard drive make sure it will first fit inside the can. There are three basic thickness of the 2.5 hd's. Then you need to find out the bios limits on that model.
I believe I have seen 4 gigs installed with no problems.
cool okay, thanks for the tips.
Where, do you think, I may find such info?
"make sure it will first fit inside the can. There are three basic thickness of the 2.5 hd's. Then you need to find out the bios limits on that model."
Thanks again for all the help.
I will let you know how it goes.
C-
Hey all,
Well, I got the HD out of the "can" got it hooked up to my desktop via the HD adapter. Got Win 98 transfered and installed to laptop. So, that all went very smoothly. :)
All seems well other than I can't set my screen resolution any greater than 640x480. I do get 16 or 24-bit color. But it seems from all that I've read that I should be able to get 800x600. I installed the video adapter drivers from IBMs site. (Its got a whopping 1 meg video card. think I can play Quake? :D ) But those didn't seem to do the trick. Interestingly, before I installed the new video adapter drivers I could set resolution to 800x600 but only at 256 colors max.
Any thoughts about this conundrum?
Thanks for all the help!
C-
I`d check your default monitor setting you might have the incorrect type selected even though its the correct driver.
So,
here's a kinda funny addition. after getting my laptop appetite whetted by this old clunker I ran right out to Best Buy this weekend and got me a brand spankin new Compaq Presario 2100. Whoopie!!
AMD 1800+
512 MB DDR ram
40 gig HD
DVD/CD burner
Not a bad price either.
So let this be a lesson to everyone,....
uh... not sure what that would be, but I sure do like my new toy!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D