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    Issues installing 320GB Seagate Momentus 7200.3 in T400

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Llama R, Oct 21, 2008.

  1. Llama R

    Llama R Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone, so I'm trying to install a 320GB Seagate Momentus 7200.3 into a T400 and I'm having some major issues.

    First of all, when the drive is installed, the computer has issues rebooting. When I ctrl+alt+del, the screen turns off and it just sits there and needs a hard reset.

    Second, it takes a few tries before I can get the recovery DVD to boot successfully, but then it does manage to get the image onto the disc...however the hard drive will not boot.

    I have tried jumpering the drive to operate in SATA-150 mode and the same thing happens. I have also put this drive into an external enclosure and it works just fine. The recovery partitions and everything are all there and I can read/write to it just fine.

    Any suggestions? I know a bunch of you have this drive running just fine inside a T400...
     
    Llama R, Oct 21, 2008
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    Llama R Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, this is also starting to happen with the original hard drive. It's going off to the service center tomorrow, I'll let ya'll know how this turns out.
     
    Llama R, Oct 21, 2008
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