T410 laptop with T60 Harddrive?

Hi guys,

I just bought a Lenovo T410 and I am trying to put in my hard drive from my Lenovo T60 that was preloaded with Windows 7 and all backup files.

I turned on everything, and it went to the starting Windows than all of a suddenly flashes to a blue screen that I think says error.

Does anyone know how to get pass this problem? Much appreciated. Thanks!

 

In general you can't just swap drives from 2 completely different systems and expect to have it work. In some (even most) cases it works but in general it wont.

However, your T61 was probably in IDE mode while the T410 is in AHCI. That will never boot in that configuration. So you'll have to log into the BIOS and turn off AHCI on the T410 and that should allow it to boot as SATA controllers are all about the same recently anyways. If it still wont boot then your only (sensible) option would be to backup and copy the data to the T410 anyways. I know it's tedious and time consuming but the T61 doesn't have the same hardware so you'd be somewhat limitting the T410 anyways by trying to run it with older drivers.

 

Thanks for the response!I tried to enter into the bios and its asking for a password. I just bought this laptop. Where would I be able to find this information

 

If you have an HDD password on your T60's drive, try that one. If you purchased your T410 secondhand and it has a BIOS password, that's a major problem as your machine hasn't been cleared by the previous seller.

 

if you do a clean installation, everything should work, but you have to install drivers for your hardware. you can't just pull a hard drive from a working laptop and expected to work, they have different hardware, so the drivers will not be the same, the blue screen you get probably driver conflict.

 

try this:

1. put the hard drive back into the T60
2. right click Computer & click Properties, then go to Device Manager
3. click the arrow next to Disk drives
4. right click on the one that represents your main hard drive (should have the longest, most confusing name.. or it could be the only one in the list) and click "Update Driver Software"
5. click "Browse my computer..." then click "Let me pick from a list..."
6. select "Disk Drive" and finish.
7. Shut down, and put the HDD back into your T410

On Windows XP, this has solved this problem every single time, and I'm assuming it's the same in Windows 7. (Except XP always had "Standard Dual-Channel IDE Controller" as the driver, not "Disk Drive")