Hard Drive Failure

[JamesHoward]

I have a PCG-C1VE . I was so disappointed by this forum. I signed up when my hard drive started to make odd (almost violent) noises. I couldn't find anything useful about this. Instinct told me to back everything up though. The lack of a simple look-up facility didn't help. I could find very little on hard-drive replacement. Not even about taking the back off (indeed there are guys who seem to spend their lives posting to this forum but don't know how to take the back off the machine).

The machine eventually went dead altogether. For anyone else who has this problem, take it to the little guy down the road. He diagnosed hard disc failure (easy bit that), took out the disc drive, got it spinning on a rig, did a ghost image of the whole thing (system, programs,data), put in a new 40 GB hard drive (old one was 13), reloaded all the data and guaranteed it for 12 months. 24 hour turnaround. £160. Cleaned out all the dust too. Even cleaned the screen.

Thought people would like to know how easy it is. Even just to get a bigger hard drive. It boots up way faster too.

[kee-lo_]

WOW nice guide Rob, hope James takes back his comments about us....

[William]

Rob,

Sweet as:smileygrin: :smileygrin:

William:smileylaugh:

[JamesHoward]

Cute!
No I don't expect telepathy. Despite the lack of a search facility, I went through previous posts fairly thoroughly. Couldn't find any previous mention of these problems with a satisfactory solution. After the thing went totally phut, I suppose I could have gone down to the internet cafe (being pc-less now), posted my problems and waited for solutions from the ether. Didnt fancy that. But after it was fixed I thought I'd do someone else a favour and post what happened to me. The next guy might like to know these things are possible before his/her Vaio goes in the bin.

Even better, there is now a post giving disassembly instructions (whether Sony would encourage it or not). So I'm pleased with my contribution. Hope the service manual location follows with the next flame.

[TygerTyger]

Well the solution is very helpful thank you, however the next guy would post his problem just like everyone else does, and would get an answer. After the thing went phut it was the point of no return anyway so it would have been fruitless for us to, say, recommend you back up your data as we would have done.

I don't want to seem rude but you didn't ask a question which is why you didn't get an answer and that's all there is to it.

[kee-lo_]

A service manual, you've got to be joking.... I'd be suprised if you got more help.

[robpaxton]

Hope the service manual location follows with the next flame.

Good try though

[kee-lo_]

Gotta give him full marks for cheekiness!