Hi. I am getting a used Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS.
http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproduc...0cds_spec.html

Can I just take a hard drive from an old computer and put it in the
Toshiba? Someone told me that all Toshiba parts were proprietary and
would not fit into the computers of other brands.

Thanks,
Mitch

I usually work on Dells but my guess is that your Toshiba will take any
laptop drive.
Now when changing a drive there maybe an adapter on the end that must be
used with the new drive.

"MitchellCowen" <mitchell.verter******.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I am getting a used Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS.
> http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproduc...0cds_spec.html
>
> Can I just take a hard drive from an old computer and put it in the
> Toshiba? Someone told me that all Toshiba parts were proprietary and
> would not fit into the computers of other brands.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch
>

MitchellCowen wrote:
> Hi. I am getting a used Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS.
> http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproduc...0cds_spec.html
>
> Can I just take a hard drive from an old computer and put it in the
> Toshiba? Someone told me that all Toshiba parts were proprietary and
> would not fit into the computers of other brands.
>
They were wrong. The connector and drive cage might be proprietary, but
the drive is not.

Ian Singer


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No, the hard drives are not proprietary and yes, you can take just about
any 2.5" IDE hard drive and use it in just about any laptop, Toshiba or
otherwise (except for recent models that use SATA instead of IDE hard
drives). Of course, this is a generalization to which there could be a
few, but very few, exceptions.

However, please note:

1. You can't generally use the operating system installed on one laptop
on another laptop of a different model. You can use the hard drive, but
you should expect to have to do a complete reinstall of Windows (and
perhaps even a reformat/repartition).

2. What you are calling "the hard drive" may in fact be the hard drive
installed into a hard drive caddy (or "carrier"). Most laptops use
caddys. Caddy's are normally both proprietary and model specific (ALL
caddys, not just Toshiba). You may need to remove the hard drive from
whatever caddy, if any, it is currently in, and install it into the
caddy for the 2500CDS (and if you didn't get the caddy with the laptop,
you may have to obtain one .... sometimes incredibly difficult).


MitchellCowen wrote:
> Hi. I am getting a used Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS.
> http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproduc...0cds_spec.html
>
> Can I just take a hard drive from an old computer and put it in the
> Toshiba? Someone told me that all Toshiba parts were proprietary and
> would not fit into the computers of other brands.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch
>

MitchellCowen wrote:
> Hi. I am getting a used Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS.
> http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproduc...0cds_spec.html
>
> Can I just take a hard drive from an old computer and put it in the
> Toshiba? Someone told me that all Toshiba parts were proprietary and
> would not fit into the computers of other brands.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch

Well, the original drive is a 2gig, there MIGHT be an 8Gig bios limit.

Other common limits are 32GB, 128gb and 137GB.

Before putting in a modern hard drive, i would consider a bios upgrade.
If available. If you're just pulling one from a same generation
machine, there's not likely to be a problem

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t..._sc_modSel.jsp

http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.c...jsp?service=EU