I have recently changed the hard drive of my 5 years old T42 Thinkpad laptop. I had a 30 gb hard drive and that was obviously not enough to compile all the things I want to compile. Just to give an idea, I want to have xorg and nemiver jhbuilds as well as OpenEmbedded and OpenMoko builds around. If you add the fact that I use ccache extensively, I really needed more disk space.
So I went to memorysuppliers.com and ordered a hard drive of 160 GB. They did a very a good job in sending the disk very quickly. I backed up my home directory by simply using the excellent rsync program to save stuff on an external hard drive connected to the laptop via USB.
Then I followed the instructions here to remove the old disk and replace it with the new one.
After that, I just reinstalled a brand new GNU/Linux system and recovered my backed up data.
Everything went smoothly and took around 2h. Pretty neat.
I did also upgrade the ram to 2Gig a couple of months ago so compiling C++ programs is quite OK on this 5 years old machine now :-)
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I miss my Thinkpad T42 - it was good while it lasted though.
Go for it man - you will not regret the upgrade.
Absolutely - great idea to upgrade!
I'm not as big a fan of IBMs as dells. Ithink you should go for a dell when you upgrade.
Yeah, it's about time you upgraded. Altho I think it's still a nice gadget!
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man, I could use your old thinkpad if it was for sale
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Make sure that when you do it you go for the gusto!!
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