Hitachi 60GB 7200 RPM HD in M35

I purchased a fast Hitachi HDD and I installed it in my Toshiba m35. However, I noticed that it doesn't fit well because it is smaller than the Toshiba HDD that came originally with the system. Therefore it does not sit securely and even after screwing back the cover it moves when moving the laptop. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I noticed that the original HDD has some kind of enclosure that allows the cover screw to go through it, which makes the HDD more secure.

Would you please advise what to do? I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Jordi

 

I was experiencing a loose fitting (laptop) drive in my external usb2.0 enclosure, so I used a small piece of flexible styrofoam to keep things from shifting about.

I believe that the original toshiba drives have a small white plastic pull-tab on them as well. Perhaps it's possbile to transfer this pull-tap to the new drive.

 

The HDD should be screwed down to a mounting bracket of some sort. that bracket should be keeping the HDD in place. It's also weird that the HDD they used was an older 12mm design rather than the newer 9.5mm design. Just out of curiosity, what was the old drive brand/model?

If using some sort of padding, make sure it ESD safe. You don't want this thing to emit some static shock onto your notebook/HDD. You can get this ESD padding/foam from electronics (parts) shops.

-Vb-

 

Thank you, Venombite.

Best regards,

Jordi

 

http://www.impactcomputers.com/jushardrivca.html has a very large selection of replacement HDD brackets/caddies. I found one for my Tecra M2 (although the description isn't current)