IBM thinkpad bought 2000 hard drive replacement: Toshiba o..

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Dear All:

I have a failing thinkpad HDD. need to replace it. Got two final
choices:

Toshiba mk4026gax 5400rpm 40gb, 16mb cache 1year warranty
Seagate st94811a 5400rpm 40gb, 8mb cache 5year warranty

Which do you recommend?

Secondly;
My old drive is 66mhz , the above new ones are all ATA-6 100mhz, I
wonder if the above two drive will be compatible?

Thirdly;

I heard that the IBM has a separate section on HDD for system
information for restore system. I wonder How to clone that to the new
drive?

Any comments are appreciated!

Thanks


Sureming