I have found a good Hard Drive Upgrade/Replacement for Fujitsu Stylistic 3400 Tablet PC's.
IBM Travelstar IC25N020ATDA04-0 4200RPM 2meg Cashe 20 Gig Is a Direct fit 100% compatible drive with these machines. Also I noticed a little performance improvement using it also.
Here is the best part. No Complex Partioning needing! Create the Primary Partion using the whole Size of the drive, format, install os, or Ghost Drive image, and call it done.
Works great. I plan on buying one more for my other machine, and selling my spare 3400 unit with a really bad Touch pad off. It works perfect except for the digitizer being wasted. Shame too its the cleanest of my machines.
This Travelstar Hard drive is a great alternative to using the toshiba 6 gig that reqires the drive needing to be partioned to work properly.
Its nice to have a pile of music, and video's on my Tablet now.
I know this will have to help some of you out there.

How did you image the tablets hdd.
I haven't been able to find anything other than a floppy that the bios will see to move the image over to the drive?

Could you please give me instructions on how to replace the hard drive? That is, how to remove the present drive and install the new drive.

Thanks.

You remove the 2 screws to the hard drive cover on the back. Gentlly unplug the ribbon cable from the computer pull out the drive swap the cable to the new hard drive and reinstall. It's less than a five minute job. I sold my 3400 a long time ago so I forget exactly which cover it was. you can tell once you open it up. Just be careful with the ribbon cable they are next to impossible to get, and very expensive.. I think Fujitsu charges 75 dollars for it. if they still carry it

I miss my fujitsu.... :(

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Thanks. Sounds relatively simple.

I once had an Acer and a Toshiba 3110CT that I gave up on upgrading because you had to prectically dismantle the computer to get to the hard drive.

Thanks again.

Another hard drive you might want to consider is:
Fujitsu MHV2040AT 40GB 4200 RPM 2MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM from newegg.com
link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822153021

It has fluid dynamic bearing making it very quiet + user reviews call it cool running still 4200 rpm so it won't drain your battery. There's also a 80 gig version w/8mb cache. It's worth the extra $20 for the bigger cache. It makes a noticable improvement in performance.
You might want to check out this site:
http://www.tabletpc2.com/Review-Howtodoeverything.htm
pretty cool stuff for tablet users.

Have you actually tryed upgrading a Stylistic 3400 with this drive and have you verified that it works?

Hi all,

If you have tried to get your PC to be able to recognize the Toshiba 6GB hard drive from the 3400 tablet pc using a 44 pin to 40 pin adapter and the BIOS would not recognize the drive, it is probably due to the adapter you are using:

I think that I have figured out what the problem with the tablet Toshiba hard drive is.

The replacement Fujitsu 40GB hard drive has interface pins 41 +5v logic and 42 +5v motor pins shorted together on its connector.

The older tablet pc Toshiba hard drive does not short pins 41 and 42 together on its connector.

The 44 pin to 40 pin adapter I am using only provides +5v power to pin 42 and not pin 41 so the Toshiba drive electronics will not get +5v and will fail to talk to the motherboard BIOS.

One solution is buy a different adapter where the traces from the 44 pin side of the adapter are open and you can jumper pins 41 and 42 together or the different adapter, unlike the one I am using, has pins 41 and 42 jumpered.

Hope this helps anyone who could not get their 3400 Toshiba drive to talk to their PC using a 44 to 40 pin adapter.

Regards,
TCIII

Hi all,

I was able to get my PC to see the 3400 Toshiba 6GB HD and used Norton Ghost 2003 to clone the Toshiba to a 40GB HD that I had formated with NTFS.

Ghost transfered all of the system files but one, so I manually transferred the file by hand.

The 40GB Fujitsu now has all of the files that the Toshiba 6GB has, but the 3400 says that the operating system is missing at start up.

I have checked the 3400 BIOS and it has recognized the new drive, but I cannot see its attributes.

Should I have used PCDOS to format the Fujitsu 40GB HD as a FAT32 drive as is the 3400 Toshiba 6GB drive?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
TCIII

Hi all,

After experiencing the above bootup failure I did the following:

I created a Windows 98SE bootable floppy and used it to format (FAT32) the Fujitsu 40GB drive that I am trying to use to transfer the mirror image of the Stylistic 3400 6GB hard drive that has Windows 2000 on it.

I made the 40GB drive a boot drive and placed it in the Stylistic 3400 in place of the 6GB drive.

When I turned the Stylistic 3400 on, the tablet booted to the C> prompt so I know that the Stylistic 3400 can see and boot from the new 40GB drive.

However, when I attempt to use Norton Ghost 2003 on my PC with both the 6GB Stylistic 3400 drive and the new 40GB drive hooked to the PC, the cloning appears to go okay, but when I put the new 40GB drive back in the Stylistic 3400, it starts up and again says that there is no operating system present.

What am I doing wrong? Am I not cloning the 6GB drive correctly? It appears like the cloning process is making the new 40GB drive unbootable.

Comments?

Regards,
TCIII

Hi all,

I found out on another forum that all you have to do is run fdisk /mbr on the cloned drive (40GB) and all will be well.

Apparently the cloning process using Norton Ghost 2300 corrupts the cloned drives mbr (Master Boot Record).

Regards,
TCIII

TCIII
or anybody tries to put the OS onto the harddrive? I am getting c: but not reading my cd-rom drive even though I installed the driver from the floppy disk. Regards, jC.

Can anybody take me step by step as to how to install os onto the hard drive with docking and cd-rom. Thanks a whole bunch:)

this is from another forum and person i hope it does help you. i suspect that something is wrong with your master boot record it doesn't find the nt bootloader on drive c:.

you should try to boot from floppy win 98 or cd. win xp got a rescue console to fix the mbr somebody above wrote the write command. i guess win 2000 has got something similar. if you use a win 98 floppy it will not work if your win 2000 is on a ntfs partition because there is no ntfs driver on the floppy.

for a new installiation i ad the following.
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This is the complete How-To to install Windows 2K on the Fujitsu Stylistic assuming a clean or new harddrive. It is also a work around not having a dock, or bootable floppy drive.

The basic principal is to prep your harddrive in a desktop PC, then boot the stylistic off of the new harddrive and do the Win2k setup on that drive, from that drive.

What you will need:
A Fujitsu Stylistic 3400 or 3500 pen enabled slate computing device
An IDE 40 pin to 44 pin 2.5" harddrive adapter
Your Own Windows 2000 CD-ROM and Cert. of Authenticity, specifically, the i386 directory and all its subdirectories.
A USB Hub, Keyboard, and Mouse, or USB combo keyboard and mouse
A desktop/tower PC that you have the ability to add another harddrive to
If the desktop is running Win98, that's all,
If the desktop is running Win2K or XP, it will need to have a working floppy drive that it can be booted from.

In general, these instructions assume you have some knowledge of administration/manipulation of your graphical, Win98 2K XP desktop.


Prep:
If you are using a win2K or XP desktop, a bootable Win98 system disk will need to be made in preparation for the following operation;

Once you have extracted the Zip package, you will find several directories, one of which is "FloppyTools" in that directory run (double click) the program Floppy Image.exe. In the lower half of the screen, the section to Write Floppy, click the Browse button. You may have to browse back to the directory, and select the image setup.img.

Ensuring that a blank, or unnecessary floppy, disk is in the floppy drive, click start. When it's finished, eject the disk and quit the program. We will get back to it later.

Now we will pick up the pace for a while

1. Install new drive in desktop, preferably by itself on secondary IDE cable

2. Partition / format FAT32 / Test, make the partition active!

3. Reboot desktop with Win98 custom boot disk, if using Win98 just open a command prompt and do step 4 from within windows, skipping step five.

4. SYS new drive
For example, in my PC the new drive shows up as c: because the Win98 boot disk cannot mount the NTFS volume that my Win2K resides on. Ensure that you are performing this operation on the new drive. You could really screw up your desktop in this step. In my situation the command looks like this:
A:>sys c:

5. Reboot desktop to Win2K/XP

6. Copy directories to new drive: i386 from your Win2K CD
Drivers from the Zip 3400setup
Doco "
Also the driver package for what ever is going to be your primary network adapter under Win2K, unless you are sure that it is natively supported by Win2K.

7. Take contents of \3400setup\move2root\ and move the four files to the root of new drive, if you don't see four files check your explorer's tools/folder options and ensure that you aren't hiding system and hidden files from yourself.

8. Remove drive from desktop and install in Stylistic 3400. Power up tablet, USB keyboard and mouse connected. Use bios to detect new drive if necessary

9. At command prompt: cd i386
winnt.exe

10. Finish up basic install of Win2K

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