Sony T1 or T2xp hard drive advice

[Courageous]

Hi chaps. Have just inserted an additional 512Mb of Microdimm to my Sony T1xp giving it the total of 1 gig now. Reassembled (yes a degree of disassembly required to achieve this)....... and she works fine. Powered up a doozy and all well. So, next trick, to insert the new 120 gig hard drive as well. Hmmm, now this is where it all gets a bit hairy for me! I managed to remove every screw in the machine and safely lever off the back but due to the number of infinitely short ribbons attached to the mobo could only do the practising gynaecologist thingy and take a peep in. It scared me to be honest! I'm no stranger to disassembling electronic thingymajigs but looks to me like it could be a recipe for disaster!

My question is - has anyone else here succesfully replaced the hard drive in one of these beasties and if so what's the knack? Also - the hard drive inside the machine looks a smaller form than the one I have in me hand! Is this possible or are all 9mm laptop drives the same form factor? Hope someone can help!

Cheers

[NSR Mick]

Looking at your laptop which is a small one your hdd may be a 1.8" not a 2.5".

Laptops have also started using sata drives too, although I dont know whether yours does or not.
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[Courageous]

ouch! 1.8"???? I didn't know they even existed! Thanks for that!