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It's now 12:13 on Wednesday morning. Today at work, I got a Toshiba 810MB hard disk and Windows 95, so I was very eager to get them running. I got home, backed up all the important data on my lowly 170MB disk (onto floppies - ugh). Then I set about installing the hard disk. I pulled out the old one, and after examining it carefully, I pulled back the sticker over the part near the clamp that holds it in place. I removed the two screws there, and the case snapped apart with just a little prying. Nothing broke - no sonic bonds or plastic tabs. The Toshiba drive is a bit thinner than the IBM drive, but it went right into the caddy (just checking now, it is hard to get the security tab out, but I have never used that, and you can get it out with some effort). The tricky part was the short adapter cable. The IBM drive pin array has an extra set of two non-pins on one end (if you've looked, you know what I mean), so I assumed that the Toshiba drive connected with those pins empty, and I was right. I used the BIOS disk test to give the drive a whirl, and after minor anxiety attacks and whirring sounds, the drive passed. The drive is noticably louder than the IBM, but not annoyingly so. The next step was to install Windows 95 upgrade from scratch. Well of course you can't do that, so I installed a bare DOS setup with the DOS 6.1 disks that came with the machine (ah yes, the good old days). I then started the setup, and after three disks (I bought the 3.5" version), it asked for a qualifying product. I popped in the disk labelled IBM WINDOWS 3.1 (gotta love that) and away it went, but very slowly for the remainder of the 13 disks. Using the TPWIN95.TXT file from the ftp site, I went back and saw that the latest version of the BIOS I have on floppy is 1.20. Oops! They recommend 1.41 or later, and I will do that, because after a suspend, any keypress locks the system for the better portion of a minute. I then installed the VESA driver from the Video Features disk. 1024x768x256 colors like a champ. Next was ThinkPad Features - Fuel, video, suspend settings... no problems. Next was PCMCIA. I got the Windows 95 versions running just fine, but they do not light the PC Card LED. (Any hints?) I also installed the Audio 1.31, even though I prefer the lean mean 1.0 version. It was strange seeing a help message that said "If you are installing an audio device driver on you IBM ThinkPad, you may have to install it twice." It was right. There's a suspend command on the start menu. Seems to work just like Fn4. The Toshiba drive is a great product... even with no manual. I'm surprised Quantum and Micropolis aren't jumping into this market. Windows 95 is very slow, as one would expect with 4MB of RAM. My 16MB card is on back-order. Any questions? Chris (Now if I can only install the pen driver, I'll be set!)