Hi,

I have just picked up a TR1MP on ebay in the UK. However the HD is on the way out - getting heavy clunking and CRC errors.

I have taken the lappy apart and discovered that the HD is a Hitachi

So I have ordered the following

http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_504&products_id=1312

A 40gb Hitachi 1.8” drive - it looks to be exactly the same so it shouldn’t be a problem should it?

Regards

Toby

that looks fine, there should be nothing wrong about that harddisk. of course you could also have taken another one, but this one is just fine as well.

Thanks for confirming that. They didn’t show a 30Gb available and I wasn’t going to turn my nose up at a 40gb drive.

Fingers crossed it should turn up my start of next week.

I have 1gb RAM on order and currently sourcing out a DVD-RW.

The the TR1MP is complete

Congratulations, that will make a fine piece of a TR

I hope everything works out.  :wink:

-best,
Concura

4 November 2004

let me know if you find a reasonably priced dvd-rw.

My memory turned up yesterday and my 40gb drive today. The only issue I had was putting the wrong screws back into the tr1mp. Had to swap the shortys for the long screws!

Checked the mem and HD in the bios then did a full recovery from the dvd. Currently removing the progs I don’t want and then I will join it to my domain when I get home! Chuck some DivX on there and lets see what this laptop will do

Do all TR1MP (UK models) have a Hitachi hard drive inside, or could they have a Toshiba one in?

Well i have a TR1MP (but not from the UK) with a tohsiba HDD so i guess the answer to your question is YES :D

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I have 1gb RAM on order and currently sourcing out a DVD-RW.

Im really looking for a good deal on a UJ 812 or a UJ 822. Which one are your ordering ? My dvdrw UJ 812 is kinda buggered and the problem is im not in london where i reside, im in india at the moment. And im really going to need a working opticall drive in my tr, as that is the only computer i have.

Cheers.

Hi,

I have read this thread with interest as I am considering purchasing a similar Sony Vaio T1XP (I think it is called the T170 in the US). Unfortunately it is only supplied with a 40gb 4200rpm drive and I would like to upgrade it to a 60-80gb 5400rpm. First is such a drive available? If not then no point changing. Second is there instructions for dismantling a Vaio T-Series?

Obviously I would not be doing this under warranty….but just keen to find out if this is possible.

The T uses 1.8” drives. The drives you mentioned are 2.5”. Best you can do is the upcoming 60GB drives that haven’t been released yet. Search, there’s tons more info on this forum.

Or I suppose wait until the new T91 (or whatever it will be called in the UK) is released with the 1.2Ghz processor and 60Gb HD….still 4200rpm though….booooo