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Just a note to the list: I recently upgraded the 810 MB HD in my TP 560 to a 2.1 GB HD by Toshiba. All seems to work quite well. I highly recommend the "Drive Copy" program by PowerQuest, and as always, their "Partition Magic" software too. It took about 10 minutes to take apart my 560 (being careful, since it *doesn't* have a removable drive like so many other ThinkPads have), another 10 or 15 to put the old & new drives into my desktop computer, about 10 minutes to run "Drive Copy", then 5 or 10 to run Partition Magic to set up the partitions they way I wanted (since its a larger drive), and 10 to put it all back together in my ThinkPad. Everything WOULD have run smoothly in my 560 at that point, but since I had an extra partition on the new drive and compressed volume in the wrong place, I had some software configuration to fool around with. If not for that, the whole process would have been completed--womb to tomb--in about an hour. All made possible by PowerQuest software. So okay, you can choose *not* to spend $25 to $70-ish, but in so doing you're spending a *lot* more time and giving yourself a lot more headaches. I can't recommend this stuff enough! And for what its worth, Bill Morrow in Florida, who runs a web page at: http://thinkpads.com sold me my hard drive at a favorable price and was very agreeable in negotiating and delivering the goods. If you're looking to upgrade/purchase a new drive, keep him in mind. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle Director of Electronic Commerce, Marshall School of Business at USC