W530 hard drive height?

I just bought this w530:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312665CVF
I also bought a 7mm ssd to swap with the hard drive.
I've taken out the w530 hard drive, and tried fitting the rails to the ssd however its not as tight a fit as it is on the hard drive. I'm unsure as to whether this means the hard drive is 7mm or 9.5mm though, because the difference isn't that great.
How can I find out for sure what size my hard drive is, and therefore if the rails will fit my 7mm ssd, or if I need to get new rails for 7mm drives.
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After transferring the metal encasing over from the HDD to the SSD it fits perfectly.

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ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD5000BUDT-63G8FY0
Firmware Revision: 01.01A01
Transport: Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
Standards:
Supported: 8 7 6 5
Likely used: 8
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Logical max current
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heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 976773168
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Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes
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R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 0
Advanced power management level: 128
Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
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Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* NOP cmd
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
* Advanced Power Management feature set
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SET_MAX security extension
* Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* SMART error logging
* SMART self-test
Media Card Pass-Through
* General Purpose Logging feature set
* 64-bit World wide name
* URG for READ_STREAM[_DMA]_EXT
* URG for WRITE_STREAM[_DMA]_EXT
* IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
* {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
* Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
* Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
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* Host-initiated interface power management
* Phy event counters
* Idle-Unload when NCQ is active
* NCQ priority information
DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
Device-initiated interface power management
* Software settings preservation
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* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
unknown 206[14] (vendor specific)
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supported
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138min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 138min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50014ee60132e99d
NAA : 5
IEEE OUI : 0014ee
Unique ID : 60132e99d
Checksum: correct
As it uses Advanced Format, I did an aligned partitioning as you can see here:
# fdisk -u -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04801fe0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 224909 111431 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 224912 44275139 22025114 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 44275144 48484169 2104513 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 48484176 976768064 464141944+ 83 Linux
After that I tried to copy my old system and data from the old hard drive (The new WD drive was built into the laptop and the old drive connected via SATA2USB adaptor). After a few minutes the hdd started to hang and the following messages occured in "dmesg"
[ 934.624568] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 934.624575] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
[ 934.624583] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT
[ 934.624596] ata1.00: cmd 35/00:80:68:2b:13/00:01:2d:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 196608 out
[ 934.624599] res 61/04:10:f0:1c:13/04:00:2d:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
[ 934.624606] ata1.00: status: { DRDY DF ERR }
[ 934.624611] ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
[ 934.631465] ata1.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x1)
[ 934.631472] ata1.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling
[ 934.646871] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 (device error ignored)
[ 934.646890] ata1: EH complete
[ 1234.019934] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 1239.033266] ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 1239.033279] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 1244.199930] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 1249.053269] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[ 1249.053282] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 1254.219921] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 1259.073267] ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[ 1259.073279] ata1: soft resetting link
[ 1264.239938] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
First I thought it looks like a problem with the SATA connector within my notebook, but it shouldn't be case as the hdd sits tight and the old one still works. Moreover I tried to change SATA settings in BIOS from "AHCI" to "Compatibility" in case of a driver fault, but this also didn't fix the issue.
For now I have connected the new hard drive with the SATA2USB adaptor and do some writing on it via dd. In this case, the errors do not occur at all.
The disk now gives me errors even if connected via USB. So I assume it is a hardware defect. The Western Digital Drive Check tools won't boot, but, I think these errors are more or less unambiguous
[ 268.018935] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 77649
[ 268.018938] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb
[ 268.226335] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
[ 268.226340] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 268.226345] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
[ 268.226350] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0xc ASCQ=0x0
[ 268.226355] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 09 7b 30 00 00 f0 00
[ 268.226366] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 621360
[ 268.434722] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
[ 268.434732] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 268.434740] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
[ 268.434748] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0xc ASCQ=0x0
[ 268.434756] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 09 7c 20 00 00 f0 00
[ 268.434775] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 621600
[ 268.642711] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
[ 268.642718] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 268.642723] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
[ 268.642728] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0xc ASCQ=0x0
[ 268.642733] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 09 7d 10 00 00 f0 00
[ 268.642744] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 621840
[ 268.849950] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
[ 268.849956] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 268.849961] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
[ 268.849967] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0xc ASCQ=0x0
[ 268.849971] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 09 7e 00 00 00 f0 00
[ 268.850004] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 622080
[ 269.057592] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
[ 269.057598] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 269.057603] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
[ 269.057608] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0xc ASCQ=0x0
[ 269.057612] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 09 7e f0 00 00 f0 00
[ 269.057624] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 622320
[ 299.466711] usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 329.760049] usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 354.454537] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[ 354.458395] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
[ 354.458404] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00
[ 354.458412] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 00 09 7f e0 00 00 f0 00
[ 354.458431] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 622560
[ 354.458446] quiet_error: 170 callbacks suppressed
[ 354.458451] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 77820
For the sake of completeness, here are the SMART values:
smartctl 5.40 2010-02-03 r3060 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD5000BUDT-63G8FY0
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Jul 10 09:44:26 2011 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (13560) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 158) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x7031) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
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4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 54
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 16
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 50
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 36
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 164
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 111 105 000 Old_age Always - 36
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
It is regardless which kernel version I use (latest ARCH 2.6.39 or 2.6.23 from a grml live system), the error is persistent everywhere.
I will just send it back for warranty. In fact, it's another prove for today's harddisk "quality"
EDITED: 1. forgot some detail in dmesg; 2. Finally got it
Last edited by fixje (2011-07-10 11:35:06)

We call it case or drive hum. And it seems like a harmonic clash of two devices, or the 2nd hard drive causing the case itself (metal case).
There are shock absorbent washers on the side metal door.
Drive is attached and firmly installed and the latch on the back is securely in down and lock position.
And of course it still happens.
Me, I'd pull the old inefficient 250GB drive with 8MB cache, the Seagate 7200.9s that some shipped with were horrible performance and noise).
What I do with drive is run it through WD Lifeguard in Windows a couple times (Extended Test, full format instead of quick).
Some people sought out drive sled anti-vibration washers to fit to the sled (can't change the height though in order to fit properly).
Turn off "allow drives to spin down when not in use" if on.

Cannot boot into Windows XP, should I replace hard drive?

THE PROBLEM: I have not been able to boot into or use Windows XP (SP2) for almost 3 years. I have been using Linux instead for 3 years and am using it now. The Windows Recovery process only half works, it works up until you have to boot up the computer from the hard drive. Then it no longer works. The computer will load the files from the TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD that came new with the computer onto the hard drive. But when you get to the point of booting off the hard drive, with newly added Windows & Toshiba files, nothing happens. It does not boot up into Windows XP. In fact I can see the newly added Windows & Toshiba fileson the hard drive when I boot into Linux (Live) off the hard drive.
THE HARD DRIVE (Specs below): I ran a SMART Data check using a Linux (Ubuntu) Disk utility on the hard drive and it passed everything except for Reallocated Sector Count. There are 20 bad sectors. I called the Toshiba 800 # on the DVD and they told me that the problem may be the hard drive. A new TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD costs $40. Toshiba also said there is no Windows XP Recovery Console on the DVD.
CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM: I think, and TOSHIBA agreed it is either the hard drive or corrupteD files on the TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: I have found a couple of sites that seem to have instructions for making a Windows XP Recovery Console CD. And I have thought I might try to run some Windows XP Recovery Console commands from such a CD, such as fixboot, fixmbr, etc. The try to see if I can boot into Windows XP from the hard drive. If I can, then that might suggest he problem is corrupted files on the TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD. If I still cannot boot into Windows, then maybe I should replace the hard drive. This should be very easy to do.
QUESTION(S): Does anybody have any comments or suggestions? Does my approach sound good? Do you have any other suggestions?
I have a TOSHIBA Satellite L25 S1216 that I bought new in early 2006. It has a 40 GB (5400 RPM) Enhanced IDE (ATA-6) 9.5 mm height hard disk drive in it. User removable, i.e., it is easy to replace.
Thank you,
Bob
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Go to Solution.

My plan is to try to use the TOSHIBA Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD to load the WIndows XP files onto the hard drive, then use the Windows XP Recovery console CD I downloaded from here
http://www.proposedsolution.com/downloads/download-windows-recovery-console/
by using commmands such as fxmbr, fixboot, etc to see if I can get the computer to boot up into Windows XP.
Good plan, Bob!
Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console for advanced users
A backup plan would be to obtain a Windows XP installation CD from eBay or wherever. They are super cheap now. Then you could install Windows clean and add the drivers and utilities from the website here. Or you could use it to repair-install Windows.
How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
You are entitled to activate Home Edition for free. I understand that even after Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP (in April), they will honor activation attempts.
I wouldn't mess with SSDs. And stick with IDE PATA drives. You won't need to worry about advanced-format technology since that didn't come along until the very recent SATA drives. Your BIOS should support 120GB (KB303013). Some here.
-Jerry

T60p Hard Drive Errors in Diagnostics Test

I recently started having problems with my internal hard drive. It is just over 1 year old, a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400rpm, 8MB cache.. While trying to extract a few zips, I started getting an I/O Device Error message. I ran a CHKDSK and fixed all the bad sectors. However, even after running the checkdisk, I am still getting errors in the ThinkVantage Diagnostic Tool.
I have a T60p, model 8743-CTO. Running Windows 7 with 2x1GB RAM.
Here are the hard drive errors I found with the diagnostics tool.
FAILED: Targeted Read Test - Error Code WHD20-P5V
Error while reading sector 6033483899
FAILED: Surface Scan Test - 2: Error Code WHD08-HMV
There were over 10 sectors with errors
Is my hard drive really failing? Like I said, its a WD Scorpio Blue that I bought just over a year ago, I think they should last longer than a year.
Any thoughts?

Hello,
Sometimes hard disk drives fail prematurely.
Just to verify the issue is with the hard disk drive, you might want to remove it from the ThinkPad and connect it to another computer. The data and power connectors are standard, so this should not be a problem, as long as there is another computer with available connectors. From there, you can check the drive further, as well as back up any valuable data which might be on the hard disk drive.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
I am a volunteer and neither a Lenovo nor a Microsoft employee. • Dexter is a good dog • Dexter je dobrý pes
S230u (3347-4HU) • X220 (4286-CTO) • W510 (4318-CTO) • W530 (2441-4R3) • X100e (3508-CTO) • X120e (0596-CTO) • T61p (6459-CTO) • T43p (2678-H7U) • T42 (2378-R4U) • T23 (2648-LU7)
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T 61 - Hard Drive problem after attempt to restore laptop to ex-factory situation

Hi all
I have a T61 Type 7664-17U from 07/10 bought at a charity auction. It came with all the disks to reset to ex-factory situation. Worked nicely for almost a year the sound indicating that there was no drivers for it. Went to Lenovo site, got the correct driver and tried to install it.
A message came that only part of the request was executed, still no sound and no driver. I log off to sign up as administrator as it could be lack of "authority" so to speak, just to discover that the person that bought it for me and installed some software he had allowed himself to set up a password for "administrator".
No other passwords exist anywhere.
Because the T61 came with lots of software that I do not use and that were just slowing it down, and also because it came from other "hands" and including for security reasons I decided that it was time, to clean the entire hard drive to ex-factory situation.
Used all the disks and everything went well until after all the disks were run and inserted the "Supplemental Disk" in the end a message came up.
No AOD file found
After auto restart was made I was instructed:
"Click next to begin Recovery Process"
then
"Preparing Hard Drive"
The laptop freezed for about 3 or 4 seconds and proceeded again on its own but the hard drive was not formatted, simply no time for it.
New auto-restart
Then a message.
"No Hard Drive Present"
Now, on a 160 GB Disk, I can only see a single partition of about 6 (six) gigabytes named SERVICE 0001
Couldn't find a way around this problem.
Can anyone help me and tell me what might have happened and how to solve this problem ?
Buying another disk is simply not an option at this time.
All the best Stilicho
IBM ThinkPad T23 2647 8MU
LENOVO ThinkPad T61 Type 7664-17U - 07-10
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello,
Have you tried erasing or wiping the disk using whatever tool the hard disk drive manufacturer provides, and then performing a clean install from the recovery media? If so, what effect did that have?
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
I am a volunteer and neither a Lenovo nor a Microsoft employee. • Dexter is a good dog • Dexter je dobrý pes
S230u (3347-4HU) • X220 (4286-CTO) • W510 (4318-CTO) • W530 (2441-4R3) • X100e (3508-CTO) • X120e (0596-CTO) • T61p (6459-CTO) • T43p (2678-H7U) • T42 (2378-R4U) • T23 (2648-LU7)
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