sony viao - hard drive

skater_kat

i have a sony viao laptop which crashed and would not restart.
my brother identified that the reason is that the hard drive is broken and it needs a new one.
does anyone know what sort of price i would be looking at to get this done? and any recommendations of where i shoudl go ?

thanks

CoolHotCold

Model Number?
(either the one on the bezel on the laptop screen or the one underneith the laptop.

macman

Changing the drive takes about 10 minutes tops and you can do it yourself. New hard drives cost from about £30 up depending on capacity The main issue is whether you have an OS disc and whether you need to recover your data from the old drive.
From the minimal info you have given I would be doubtful that the drive has actually suffered physical failure, rather than just the OS failing to load.

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What are the symptoms, what comes on screen?

skater_kat

thanks all.

model number is PCG-6N1L

i don't think i have the original OS disk. i'll go look though.

when you press the power button it makes the start up 'beep' and shows the vaio symbol but then it just shuts down!

skater_kat

macman wrote: »

Changing the drive takes about 10 minutes tops and you can do it yourself. New hard drives cost from about £30 up depending on capacity The main issue is whether you have an OS disc and whether you need to recover your data from the old drive.
From the minimal info you have given I would be doubtful that the drive has actually suffered physical failure, rather than just the OS failing to load.

cheers. so if i get the correct OS disk and reload it, it could be fine?
from what i understand, data recovery is rather pricey?!

skater_kat

it was operating on XP by the way...

skater_kat

skater_kat wrote: »

thanks all.

model number is PCG-6N1L

i don't think i have the original OS disk. i'll go look though.

when you press the power button it makes the start up 'beep' and shows the vaio symbol but then it just shuts down!

correction on that last bit i just tried it again (havent looked at it for a while) - it gets past the vaio symbol, has the statement about windows being started either in safe mode or normally due to previous shutdown - select either option to go forward - and so then you get to the xp loading screen for about 3 seconds before it reboots itself.

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buy a usb 2.5 disk caddy for around £4 recover your data to another machine, reinstall windows from factory restore partition or disc

skater_kat

not sure how i can access the data to back it up to a USB when i can't get past the start up page?

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you put the hard disk in the caddy, and attach to another machine