Replacing an old hard drive in an IBM thinkpad

[jcs1987]

Im going to be upgrading an old IBM thinkpad 390X with a new hard drive the old hard drive was an IBM Travelstar 6.49GB. I was hopin 2 get a 40 Gb hard drive. but i read somewhere that upgrading an older laptop with a new hard drive can be a problem and special software is needed to make it work does anyone know of anything like this and could someone suggest a decent hard drive please?

 

[jcs1987]

yeah i was thinking that but i read somewhere but cant remember where that it is possible to upgrade to higher capacity hard drives with the use of software have you any clues on that

 

[jcs1987]

thanks any way im keepin an eye on some 12gb travelstar hard drives on ebay with luck i should get 1