Harddrive Upgrade
Why?
- More capacity
- Quieter drives
- All hard drives fail so if you extensively use your thinkpad for several years, you should consider this option
Options
Seagate Momentus 2.5-inch notebook drives are highly recommended.
Howto
- Buy the upgrade
- Buy a USB enclosure ~10USD
- Mount upgrade in the USB enclosure
- Boot with a liveCD such as Knoppix or Ubuntu's LiveCD
Normally your hard drive would be /dev/hda and your external USB hard drive upgrade should be /dev/sda. Check with `dmesg` if this is the case. There is several different irksome ways to migrate your data to the upgrade. I've performed the cat method:
cat /dev/hda > /dev/sda
This can take as much as 20 hours to perform, depending on the size of your original hard drive.
And the resized the partition with the tool parted. This takes far less time, 30 minutes in my case.
Now the tricky part, taking your hard drive out and replacing it with the upgrade.
