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    Replacement hard drive

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by slam5, Apr 13, 2008.

  1. slam5

    slam5 Notebook Guru

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    I have a x60 1706-8du. Is it possible to use any brand of hard drive to upgrade or I have to use Hitachi? Thanks
     
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    you can use any brand like seagate, hitachi, samsung ect.
    you must use the same type
    for example, if u have sata use sata. If you don't dont.
     
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    It's a SATA and yes any will work as long as it's SATA.
     
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    thanks all for the info! now, what do you use to clone the drive? i have ghost 11 and it won't reconize the usb chip. i just want it verbatim cloned but with all drive space used.
     
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    Since I have a Seagate drive, I can get a free download of DiscWizard from Seagate's website. DiscWizard is pretty much Arcronis True Image.
     
    ZaZ, Apr 14, 2008
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