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Hard drive swap from T410

#1 Post by T410 » Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:04 am

My MOB seems to have died on my T410 and I'm really not in the mood for this now. Just wondering if I could seamlessly swap the 410 drive into my 430 and have it fire up with none of the troubles I'm not in the mood for, or if I could add it to the open bay and tell BIOS boot from it.. I'm guessing no, because my life is never that easy.

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Re: Hard drive swap from T410

#2 Post by dr_st » Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:22 pm

Depending on the OS and maybe on the SATA driver. Seamlessly perhaps not, but it should be doable maybe with a small tweak.
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Re: Hard drive swap from T410

#3 Post by T410 » Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:52 pm

dr_st wrote:
Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:22 pm
Depending on the OS and maybe on the SATA driver. Seamlessly perhaps not, but it should be doable maybe with a small tweak.
What kind of tweak might it need? I'm fairly clueless about these things. The drive has Linux Mint 21 for an OS.

I don't want to do anything to muck up my 430, because then I'll have nothing. But I think I'd really have to make a monumental blunder to hurt the 430 system

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Re: Hard drive swap from T410

#4 Post by T410 » Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:42 pm

No tweaks needed, worked like a charm.
However I made an unpleasant discovery. I need an ultrabay caddy, coz I couldn't put it in the extra bay without one. Oh well, they seem cheap. I guess you can also make one from an old cd drive, and I have several of those

Edit: NVM, senior moment. :screwy: I have an ultrabay caddy lol.

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