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Hard drive firmware update utility (Bootable CD ISO) - ThinkPad R60, R60e, R60i, R61, R61e, R61i, R400, R500, T60, T60p, T61, T61p, T400, T500, W500, W700, X60, X60s, X60 Tablet, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet, X200, Z60m, Z60t, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-63685

This utility will examine your system configuration and detect all the hard drives installed. It will then check the firmware revision of the drive and judge whether your system requires a firmware update.

The following systems are supported:
- R60, R60e, R60i
- R61, R61e, R61i
- R400, R500
- Sl300, SL400, SL500
- T60, T60p
- T61, T61p
- T400, T500
- W500, W700
- X60, X60s, X60 Tablet
- X61, X61s, X61 Tablet
- X200
- Z60m, Z60t
- Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t

Notes:
- This firmware update includes the fix for the case on a system with Microsoft Windows Vista, that the system may become to display the following error message at each power on, and then cannot boot from the hard drive. "2100: Initialization error on HDD0 (Main hard disk drive)"
- If you have applied FWSH02(now discarded) with Toshiba MKxx32GSX or MKxx34GSX and plan to install Windows Vista, please apply FWSH04 or higher, otherwise Windows Vista will blue screen and stop.

Release FWSH24

* Seagate
o Momentus 7200.1 4.07
o Momentus 5400.3 3.CLH
o Momentus 5400 FDE.2 3.CLG
o Momentus 7200.2 3.CME
o Momentus 5400.4 3.CMF

Release FWSH23

* Hitachi
o HTS5432xxL9SA00 ZC48C
o HTS543216L9SA01FDE LC48C
* Western Digital
o WDxxxxBEVS-08RS 11.01G11

Release FWSH22

* Hitachi
o HTS5410xxG9SA00 C69R

Release FWSH21

* Fujitsu
o MHV2xxxBH 0084002F
o MHV2xxxBH PL 0084002F

Release FWSH20

A bootable CD type is changed from the floppy disc emulation to the hard disk emulation. Any file viewer software can not show the contents of the written CD-R/CD-RW disc.

* Previously released HTS5410xxG9SA00/C67R firmware has been found an update failure in some case. This release includes older release of the drive firmware instead.

New drive firmware (Jul 01, 2008)

* Toshiba
o MKxx32GSX ASxx7E
o MKxx34GSX AHxx5E
o MKxx08GAx BUxx2E
* Fujitsu
o MHV2xxxBH 0084002E
o MHV2xxxBH PL 0084002E
o MHW2xxxBH 00840019
o MHW2xxxBH PL 00840024
* Hitachi
o HTS5410xxG9SA00 C66R
o HTS7210xxG9SA00 C17V
o HTS5416xxJ9SA00 C7VP
o HTS7220xxK9SA00 ZC75A
o HTS7220xxK9SA00FDE LC75A

Release FWSH11

New drive firmware (Jan 23, 2008)

* Fujitsu
o Fujitsu MHW2xxxBH (Firmware 00840019 )
o Fujitsu MHW2xxxBH PL (Firmware 00840024)

Release FWSH10

New drive firmware (Dec 17, 2007)

* Hitachi
o HTS5416xxJ9SA00 (Firmware C7VP)

Release FWSH09

New drive firmware (Nov 01, 2007)

* Hitachi
o HTS7220xxK9SA00 (Firmware ZC75A)
o HTS7220xxK9SA00FDE (Firmware LC75A)

Release FWSH08

New drive firmware (Oct. 2, 2007)

* Toshiba
o MKxx08GAx (Firmware BUxx2E)
o MKxx32GSX (Firmware ASxx7E)
o MKxx34GSX (Firmware AHxx5E)

Release FWSH07

New drive firmware (Aug. 28, 2007)

* Fujitsu
o MHV2xxxBH (Firmware 0084002A)
o MHV2xxxBH PL (Firmware 0084002B)
* Hitachi
o HTS5410xxG9SA00 (Firmware C66R)
o HTS7210xxG9SA00 (Firmware C15V)
o HTS5416xxJ9SA00 (Firmware C7UP)

Release FWSH06

* New drive firmware (Apr. 13, 2007)
o Toshiba
+ MKxx32GSX (Firmware ASxx6E)
+ MKxx34GSX (Firmware AHxx4E)

Release FWSH05

* New drive firmware (Mar. 27, 2007)
o Hitachi
+ HTS5410xxG9SA00 (Firmware C65R)
+ HTS7210xxG9SA00 (Firmware C14V)
+ HTS5416xxJ9SA00 (Firmware C7JP)

Release FWSH04

* New drive firmware (Feb. 19, 2007)
o Toshiba
+ MKxx32GSX (Firmware ASxx4E)
+ MKxx34GSX (Firmware AHxx1E, AHxx2E)

Release FWSH03

* New drive firmware (Jan. 12, 2007)
o Fujitsu
+ MHV2xxxBH (Firmware 00840029)
+ MHV2xxxBH PL (Firmware 0084002A)
o Hitachi
+ HTS5410xxG9SA00 (Firmware C60R)
+ HTS7210xxG9SA00 (Firmware C10V)
+ HTS541616J9SA00 (Firmware C7EP)

Release FWSH01

* Initial Release (Mar. 17, 2006)
o Toshiba MKxx32GSX (Firmware ASxx4E)

Note: x indicates any character(s)
Affected configurations
Any of the following ThinkPad systems:

* ThinkPad R60, R60e, R60i
* ThinkPad R61, R61e, R61i
* ThinkPad R400, R500
* ThinkPad SL300, SL400, SL500
* ThinkPad T60, T60p
* ThinkPad T61, T61p
* ThinkPad T400, T500
* ThinkPad W500, W700
* ThinkPad X60, X60s, X60 Tablet
* ThinkPad X61, X61s, X61 Tablet
* ThinkPad X200
* ThinkPad Z60m, Z60t
* ThinkPad Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t