CF-19 Mk1 bigger HD possible?

Hi,

I want to upgrade the drive on my new (to me) CF-19 Mk1.

I have spoken to a Toughbook dealer and they are telling me that I cannot upgrade the drive on my model (CD-19CHB23BE) because the bios can't handle it.

Does that sound right?

Ideally I would like to upgrade to something like a 320Gb drive.

 

You can... But you can't do it using the Recovery Disks. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong here as I do not currently own a CF-19) I generally stick to 160GB drives because of this... I want my end customer being able to set it up him/herself in case of emergency.

You can do a little Googling to find out how to do this... But then you would also have to load all of your own drivers in the proper order to get the full functionality of your machine.

So... I would say... It's up to you... If you are the technically adventurous type... Go for it. If you are a plug and play type.... Perhaps not.

 

It sounds like what a dealer would say

I have a 500GB drive in my CF-30 mk-2 and a 320GB drive in my cf-30 mk-1 and I know what panasonic would say about those large drives as 250GB is the largest drive they officially support

In my cf-19 mk-1 I currently have a 32GB SSD drive so I can’t confirm , but I am sure that the bios will see a 320GB drive and you will be able to restore with the recovery disks

I have the Intel matrix storage manager V.8 installed as well

Alex

 

Just to confirmed, yes! it will recognized. I installed 320Gb on my cf-19(MK1) runing xp and win 7 so far so good. anyway, I made three partition two for operating system and one for files. Even without partition it will be ok!



ohlip

 

I swap between a WD Scorpio Black 320GB Drive split into 2 seperate partitions and an Intel x25-M in my CF-19. They both work fine I've never had to use a restore disk though.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Western-Digital-Scorpio-Black-320GB-2-5-SATA-16_W0QQitemZ400087441418QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item5d2711e00a

 

Hung! how much you com....sion? Lol j/k


ohlip

 

If only I did get commision, It would be a very happy Christmas

 

I have a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB hard drive in my CF-19MKI. Installed without a problem. Think I paid 90 bucks with free shipping for it a few months ago. Here it is:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136314

 

If you need to do a system restore, you can do it on ANY smaller drive and then just Ghost the fresh image over to your new, larger HDD. I do it all the time on HPs, and they copy the serial # of the MB into the bootloader for OS authentication.

mnem
You want anchovies on that?

 

Upgrading the harddrive would not prevent the recovery CD's from working but it would be better to do a ghost image so you don't lose your programs and settings.

 

Many thanks everyone, looks like I'll try to track down a deal on a 320Gb drive and stick that in.

I don't have any problems with regards recovery disks, since I didn't get any disks with it !

 

The software I use is Acronis to make images of my laptops. Since the little buggers get banged around a lot during travel, I always make a new image before I set off on my journey...

 

A smart move since it only takes 30 minutes from start to finish....

 

I learned my lesson the hard way a few years ago. The drive didn't die, the computer got "misplaced" (stolen). Got a replacement CF-72 and used Norton Ghost to restore my previous set up. I like Acronis...its much easier. I still have that CF-72 to this day. Upgraded to a 120GB HD, 2.6GHZ P4, MINI-PCI N card, and external antenna. Use that little bugger for controlling my telescope outside now The pic is about a year old and the scope has changed a bit but that CF-72 is still tickin after all the dewey nights its been through.