Does anyone know what FW is on the following drive? This drive came out of a IBM Think Pad...

Hitachi 7K500-160
HTS725016A9A364 7200RPM 160G
Lenovo P/N: 49N7019
Hitachi P/N: 0A73291

I'm trying to update the FW on following to replace it:

Seagate
ST9160412AS 7200RPM 160G
P/N : 9HV14C-300

Thanks,

Keep on trying!

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DataRecovery.bg

Uhhhh... what?

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

Friendly hint:

If you put a hard drive in a fish tank do you think it will boot (might be hard to tell if you have an aquarium screensaver)? Or by putting a DVD in a VHS player you will benefit from a higher quality picture?

You might want to just put the hard drive in and see what happens, then if you have problems the people on this forum might be able to help.

Do You mean you have got one of those ibm laptops which produces an error code on the screen when you replace the hard drive for a different make/model?
Otherwise i'm not sure what you require.

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Sorry, why is it necessary ??

Is the drive defect?
Is the laptop defect?

If you need advice, some background information would be helpful

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NVM Guys.....false alarm!!! The following HDD works without a hitch in both the ThinkPad T60 and ThnkPad R400.

Seagate
ST9160412AS 7200RPM 160G
P/N : 9HV14C-300

Sorry for any inconvenience...

Phew... We thought that you were trying to put the Hitachi 7K500 firmware on the Seagate

Not sure if this is what you are looking for... this is the info I have. Hope is fine for you.

HDD= SN 5VG4K681 ST9160412AS PN 9HV14C-300 FW=0002SDM11

Here is a 4SDM1 or 5SDM1 firmware update for the ST9160412AS:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloa ... eid=366463

It addresses an issue with excessive load/unload cycle counts. Owners complain of too frequent clicking associated with an aggressive internal power management (APM) setting.