Hi, Sorry to bother you, but after searching the web I found your posting (from 2004...). Since I want to upgrade the HD in my Toshiba as well, I wondered if you ever got it to work? Thanks for any info you can give me. Ric-Paul Hammink (Netherlands, also 4010CDT w/W95 and 96Mb) PS: background info: I cannot even get it to recognize a second identical 4.327Gb Toshiba hard-drive... (one partition FAT32), I just formatted it to 2x2Gb in FAT to see if it will recognize it now. Your original posting: Does anybody know how to get a Toshiba 4010CDT to accept a larger hard disk. It comes with 4 GB but when I want to work with three operating systems (MSDOS; modern Windows and LINUX) this will be a problem if I also want to include applications! Conversely, I am satisfied with the computer otherwise, although it is somewhat older by now, and would like to upgrade instead of retiring it or maintaining two Laptops in order to have space for the bigger operating systems. I did look at Toshiba's site but found nothing except some information that such support is NOT provided by them! They suggest an alternative company but this company does not show any sign of supporting my model. I also would be happier to find a way to alter the BIOS and buy a HDD locally, though I did find one company offering hard disks which they suggest will work with the 4010CDT, while giving no clue that they in some way deal with the BIOS problem. (In any case, it would mean importing the HDD, with a bunch of associated problems, especially if something goes wrong. I have my fill of that trouble!) Thanks to anyone able to help. Bob Answer from Andrew: On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:17, R. Mueller wrote: > Does anybody know how to get a Toshiba 4010CDT to accept a larger hard > disk. > I also > would be happier to find a way to alter the BIOS and buy a HDD locally, > though I did find one company offering hard disks which they suggest will > work with the 4010CDT, while giving no clue that they in some way deal with > the BIOS problem. www.shoptoshiba.com indicates that Toshiba has up to a 60 Gigabyte drive upgrade that is compatible with the Satellite 4010CDT. I got there long as you got your BIOS updated to 8.20 (found at <http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/1400cv82.exe>) you should be ok with going to your local computer store and getting a 2.5 inch hard drive up to 60 GB in capacity, and putting it into the little "carrier" thingamabob the original drive came in, and there you go... They want $379 for the 60 GB one, though... It comes with a 3 year warranty, so it might be ok... ENU (www.enuinc.com) in Portland has 20, 30, 40 and 60 GB laptop drives in stock, from $106 to $175... Before purchasing, you should get the original drive out of the laptop, open the carrier, and see where the mounting screws that mount the drive to the carrier are located. OLDER ones have the mounting holes in the corners of the drive, newer ones have them in towards the middle of the sides of the drives. Yours is probably a newer one. TTFN Andrew