Thinkpad 380D Harddrive

[David Bush]

I have a Thinkpad 380D with a 2 gig hard drive.  I bought a 10 gig drive to upgrade it with.  I had heard somewhere that a 380D cannot handle a drive bigger than 5 gig.  So I partitioned it into to 5 gig drives, but it still did not work.  Any ideas on the problem?  My guess is that since '5 gig' depends on whether you are talking 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes or 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes, that maybe I need to make it 3 partions.  That was what I was considering trying, but it is a lot of work so I was hoping someone might know if that would do it.  Thanks.

[johnwill]

I don't know this particular model, but if there is indeed a limitation, it may be a physical drive size limitation, not the size of any partition.  What O/S is the machine running?

Here's IBM's page on your machine, you may want to consider the BIOS upgrade, I suspect that will help with any disk capacity issues:  http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/DSHY-3XWNVG.html?qse.380d

[David Bush]

It is running Windows 98.  I checked the page you sent and the Bios upgrade would allow it to use a 5gig drive.  Maybe it was never upgraded, so I will try that.  Thanks.

Dave