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    Ultrabay HDD + 2nd OS + Hibernate

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ponicg, Sep 19, 2007.

  1. ponicg

    ponicg Notebook Consultant

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    So I had to give my younger brother my T60p... leaving me laptopless :( I decided to "hijack" my work laptop for personal use also(I have to bring it home anyway) The only problem is that I do have my own business (smallllllllll startup atm) and need my own personal (legal) copies of an OS, Office, Visual Studio, etc.

    So I bought a 160gb 2.5 sata hdd from Circuit City for $90, and an ultrabay hdd adapter from Lenovo. What I did was unplug the HDD that came w/the machine and throw my new HDD in the main HDD spot. I booted off a Vista Ultimate CD and installed Vista Ultimate. I then popped out the CDrom and put the T60p's HDD in the ultrabay and copied all my crap over. Then I took out both HDDs and put the T60p HDD back in the T60p. Now I installed the work hdd back in the main hdd slot, and put the new one in the Ultrabay adapter. You guys still with me?

    Now I can boot using F12 to either the ultrabay or the work hdd(I could probably set ultrabay as the primary boot adapter in bios, but am too lazy to). I can hibernate either OS and on reboot to that drive, it'll come right back up. It's pretty frickin cool. Only bad part is not having an optical drive when in the Ultrabay'd OS(Vista) but oh well.
     
    ponicg, Sep 19, 2007
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