Is the Hard Drive on my IBM t40 a Sata or ESDI

IBM ThinkPad T40 2373 PC Notebook

is your hard drive ticking or making any nois if so replace hard drive, normaly you can't but you can buy one at staple for around 60 buck's,back too freezing if no nois try reprograming probly have a bad virus,plus check internal battery...

If google and manufacturer website are of no help then ask a search agency like http://manualfox.com - They do a great job.
The service is not for free, but often worthy (you only pay if they find what you are asking for).

Depends on what kinda format u doing..if it's thru the XP Disk ..if it is stuck at certain stage for too long and can hear rattle sound near the HDD ...it's mostly HDD error..Try dos format using dos bootable...or i would try installing Windows NT old version and upgrade..it helps huge some times..hope this is help full..good luck..cheers

When you download the T40 device drivers, they need to be the XP versions.
When you run the driver programs they will be unzipped/expanded to the hard drive in a folder c:\drivers. Then you need to open the various folders and run the setup programs to install the various drivers.
NOTE - The T40 series laptops come with various different manufacturers devices (eg. there are a few different wireless model LANs) and if one version driver doesn't work you need to install a different one. It is a bit of trial and error to find the right one.

your hard drive may damaged or windows is corupted, try reinstalling windows if working then good or replace a new hard drive, and reinstall windows there.

you may have knocked your hard drive lose
are you getting any error messages
you can take the hard drive out put it back in and start up pc to see if that helped.
If the hard drive was'nt the problem you may have caused something else to be lose.
Shut pc down and try hard drive first

HI IM LOOKING FOR THE DRIVRS FOR MY LABTOP T40 I NEED ALL OF THEM I LOOKED IN TO IBM SUPPORT.COM BUT I CANT FIND IT SO IF ANYONE KNOW WHERER I MAY FIND IT HELP ME OUT THANK YOU

We have a tonne of T41's here at work, but I can't remember if they use IDE disks or SATA.

If it *is* SATA, you need to get the SATA drivers from IBM's website, extract and put them on a floppy disk.

Start the Windows install, then when it says to press F6 to load additional drivers, do that. Feed it the floppy disk, and go on with the options.

In short, the Windows installer can't see the SATA disk without the driver being "pre-installed".

Hi Patrick,

ATA and SATA are basically the same. The SATA drives won't work with the machines that are designed for IDE, so you're stuck with IDE on the I-series. Check out pricewatch.com for buying hard drives. You'll be able to get them for half the price Bestbuy sells them for.

I'm not sure what's involved in getting the fingerprint device to work, if it's just a driver or a combination of driver and software. I've never worked with or had one before. I'll look into it. Have you read any of the forums at IBM's support site on this?