| Laptop Hard disk failure: is it easy to replace? My Asus U43J Laptop's HDD is starting to fail on me.
It is making EXACTLY this sound
»datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php (go into seagate, 2nd sound available.
I have nothing of value on my HDD (except Win7), so I wouldnt mind just buying a new one instead of having this one repaired.
Is this easily achievable? |
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 chambercPremium
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| said by nickstoy:My Asus U43J Laptop's HDD is starting to fail on me.
It is making EXACTLY this sound
»datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php (go into seagate, 2nd sound available.
I have nothing of value on my HDD (except Win7), so I wouldnt mind just buying a new one instead of having this one repaired.
Is this easily achievable?
Physically replacing the drive takes about 3 minutes. |
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 BlitzenZeusBurnt Out CynicPremium
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Your issue would come with the operating system. You most likely have a restore partition, but did you ever create recovery disks? You can also use the key with an oem Win 7 disk of the appropriate version to reinstall.
If it's still under warranty they should replace the hdd for you provided diagnostics can prove it's defective, and their replacement should be loaded with Win 7.
Replacing a hdd is the easy part, you just need to make sure you can use the same Win 7 key, or can restore their recovery partition with recovery disks.
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all right, many thanks, I'll now look into warranty and what kind of HDD I can put in there. |
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 Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to chamberc
said by chamberc:Physically replacing the drive takes about 3 minutes.
On an ASUS most likely true as it is on most.
While they may have wised up and changed things, but I will NEVER buy another SONY Viao laptop ever again, only laptop I'd ever seen, where the HDD was not user serviceable, you had to send it back to them to get it replaced or upgraded.
To the OP any thin 2.5" HDD should work.A standard might fit, but most have gone to the thin ones. A thin one will fit a standard carrier/bay, but not the other way around.
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 coxtaUltramundanePremium
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LALALALALALA | Do yourself a favor and make sure you replace the HD with a 7200 RPM drive.
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 The PigI know you want to be mePremium
join:2009-09-11 | reply to nickstoy
Door to hard drive is on the bottom of the laptop (see first minute of video) to see where the hard drive and memory is!
Take the old hard drive out of metal case as shown and put new drive in the case, plug it in and put door back on!
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAlmyZLhjRA
You may want to keep this video to help you out later on if you need to tear down the laptop! |
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Thanks for all the advice. I'll get to it now! |
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 JeffreyConnoisseur of leisurely thingsPremium
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Long Island
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As others have said, physically replacing the drive is a 5 minute process. Simple. Changing the battery in my APC UPS is harder than swapping HDDs in my laptop.
If you have your Recovery CDs (either ones from Asus or the ones you made yourself), you'll be good to go. Pop the disc in, follow the instructions for reinstalling the OS. |
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 tp0dyabbazooiePremium
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Carnegie, PA
kudos:4 | reply to coxta
said by coxta:Do yourself a favor and make sure you replace the HD with a 7200 RPM drive.
WRONG.
do one wayyy better and buy yourself an SSD. much faster.
heres a good one
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···-227-738
and heres a tutorial
»www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php···a546eda9
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 HarddriveProud American and Infidel since 1968.Premium
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Phone Room
kudos:2 | SSD is the way to go at this point. |
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Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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Key West, FL
kudos:1 | Except still relatively small capacity and at high cost.
So unless speed really means all that much to you.....
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 removedPremium,VIP
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kudos:37 | reply to Hayward
said by Hayward:I will NEVER buy another SONY Viao laptop ever again, only laptop I'd ever seen, where the HDD was not user serviceable Elaborate. How is the drive not serviceable by the user?
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tp0dyabbazooiePremium
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kudos:4 | said by removed:said by Hayward:I will NEVER buy another SONY Viao laptop ever again, only laptop I'd ever seen, where the HDD was not user serviceable Elaborate. How is the drive not serviceable by the user? probably cus you have to completely rip it apart... like this
»www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemb···d-drive/
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tp0dyabbazooiePremium
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said by Hayward:Except still relatively small capacity and at high cost.
So unless speed really means all that much to you.....
I guess you're one of the few with enormous patience, and enjoys waiting for your computer to process a task.
The mechanical hard drive has always been the slowest part of a computer, with some of the oldest tech. I like to compare them to a record player accessing spinning wheels of rust. heh..
SSDs can be 2x-5x as fast, or better, and will make an old laptop feel like brand new. Especially coming from an 'energy-efficient' 4200rpm drive. And SSDs use wayyyy less energy than their predecessors, extending battery life. They have an infinite shock tolerance as well.
I run a samsung 120gb ssd in my desktop, which utilizes a 3 core processor, and its actually faster than my old setup of 2x 60gb WD ssd's in raid0. Technology is really accelerating
edit-- and if you needed more space, an external hdd or dvd burner are easy to add
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said by tp0d:said by removed:said by Hayward:I will NEVER buy another SONY Viao laptop ever again, only laptop I'd ever seen, where the HDD was not user serviceable Elaborate. How is the drive not serviceable by the user? probably cus you have to completely rip it apart... like this » www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemb···d-drive/-j The TZ is only a hair bigger than most netbooks, so it makes sense to me that it'd be as tough as a netbook to disassemble. My first two netbooks required a similar amount of work to get to the HDD - I doubt this is done intentionally to make the process a pain in the ass.
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Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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said by removed:said by Hayward:I will NEVER buy another SONY Viao laptop ever again, only laptop I'd ever seen, where the HDD was not user serviceable Elaborate. How is the drive not serviceable by the user? It wasn't a usually simple hatch cover. You had to disassemble the entire laptop to get at it, and send it back to them to get it done. You also had to get their drive of course plus labor and shipping.
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removedPremium,VIP
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kudos:37 | Why would you need to use their drive? I've been working on all sorts of laptops for years and have yet to run into one that has anything even close to resembling a proprietary hard disk.
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Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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1 edit | said by removed:Why would you need to use their drive? I've been working on all sorts of laptops for years and have yet to run into one that has anything even close to resembling a proprietary hard disk.
Because is PROPRIETY SONY (Like CRAPPLE we must control everything) BS.
Have to admit never asked them if I could ship a drive with the laptop to be installed.
Still by DESIGN it was to have the HDD not user serviceable...again total SONY proprietary control everything BS.
Hopefully they aren't still doing this, but it so PO'd me I have never even looked at another Vaio laptop since... and pretty much avoid SONY at all cost if possible, for any number of other reasons to... like their damn chewing gum memory stick they held on to exclusively for so long, the rest of the industry would not license, and was pissing off customers that had tons of SD cards that SONY equipment could not use.
Finally PO'd enough customers that they gave in and either went SD or dual slots.
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Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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said by removed:The TZ is only a hair bigger than most netbooks, so it makes sense to me that it'd be as tough as a netbook to disassemble. My first two netbooks required a similar amount of work to get to the HDD - I doubt this is done intentionally to make the process a pain in the ass.
Well Sony believe me it WAS, and this was a full size laptop, where again 95%+ have the normal bottom hatch, a pop out drawer for the HDD, or under an easily popped out keyboard.
Early netbooks had no HDD, they were all solid state flash drives.
And again don't think I would buy a HDD Netbook it was not accessible. There is really no reason for that.
Its nice someone finally did a tutorial, but judging by the earliest comments on that thread... too late for mine, and I know it wasn't a TZ.
Sad though to see Sony evidentally is still needlessly doing this idiotic design, again it would appear INTENTIONLY even after 1000's of complaints.
They are SONY they don't care, they don't have too, there are enough suckers in the world, even with loosing future after first purchase.--
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