Replaced Hard drive with unsupported brand

Hello and thanks in advance for any one's input. I haves done some searching and found topics related to my question, but not exactly. I replaced the 40GB hard drive in my ThinkPad T43 and replaced it with a 250GB Western Digital Scorpio. I imaged the old drive to the new one and I am able to boot successfully and I am encountering no problems so far. (It has only been several hours) All I experience is the error at boot pertaining to my hard drive "may not be compatible" with the system.
I tried the hard drive firmware boot cd, but no firmware updates were available. (This is also when I realized that ThinkPads have "certain" types of supported hard drives.)
Basically I want to know what kind of problems I can expect to run into (if any) by using an unsupported hard drive. Could my drive be compatible and the system thinks it isn't?
Any advice would be helpful. Thanks. =]
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Deedlbug wrote:
Hello and thanks in advance for any one's input. I haves done some searching and found topics related to my question, but not exactly. I replaced the 40GB hard drive in my ThinkPad T43 and replaced it with a 250GB Western Digital Scorpio. I imaged the old drive to the new one and I am able to boot successfully and I am encountering no problems so far. (It has only been several hours) All I experience is the error at boot pertaining to my hard drive "may not be compatible" with the system.
I tried the hard drive firmware boot cd, but no firmware updates were available. (This is also when I realized that ThinkPads have "certain" types of supported hard drives.)
Basically I want to know what kind of problems I can expect to run into (if any) by using an unsupported hard drive. Could my drive be compatible and the system thinks it isn't?
Any advice would be helpful. Thanks. =]
Hi Deedlbug,
what specific 250GB Western Digital Scorpio hard drive did you get? I just did a search and I see several of them.
Is it the WD2500BEVS?
I recently bought a refurbished T43 (1871-FU1) for my little daughter, that came with 40GB. I'd like to upgrade the hard drive.
Thanks very much

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