Comments on: Replacing Hard Drive in Panasonic Toughbook Y2/W2/T2

By: David Nicholds

David Nicholds — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:26:16 +0000

I have been trying to figure out for months why my Panasonic T2’s network card was no longer working since putting in a new hard drive ! ( HITACHI HTS541616J9AT00 )

thanks to you and this excellent tip, its now all working again ! superb tech note !

thanks to the Japanese original note as well !

By: Thorp

Thorp — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:34:54 +0000

Call Heartland (Panasonic official service provider). Contact info can be found here. last time I paid $23 + $10 for ground shipping. Let me know if you have problems with them locating the part number.

By: nesas

nesas — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:17:39 +0000

Where i can find the HDD Cable of panasonic cf-w2?

By: Thorp

Thorp — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:02:51 +0000

I had successful installation in reverse order: after installing Win XP on a fresh HDD I created 2 more partitions. One was used for backup and the other onewas used by Ubuntu during quite strait forward installation. Ubuntu installer even offered dual boot loader option.

Try this: Create a new primary partition. Boot with your Win CD. Format newly created partition in FAT32. After this operation install Win on this partition.

Please let me know how it goes.

By: Bravo

Bravo — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:12:54 +0000

Hi.. thank you for your trick. I have done it with Samsung 120 GB (HM120.., sorry I do not remember the last two letters as identifier). Anyway, It works well with Linux (Ubuntu Ver. 8.02). Unfortunately, I could not install Windows on it. The comment was : IT HAS NO COMPATIBILITY PARTITION FOR WINDOWS. I have tried with Win XP Pro 32 and Win Server 2004 SP1.

Any suggestion to make it suitable with Windows?

Thank you for any reply.