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Title: Help with sony vaio vgn-x505vp
Post by: ??????Hawk?????? on 22 January, 2005, 23:51:50

Heya Peeps

Hope someone can help here ..

i need to remove the h/d from my sony vaio vgn-x505vp ( without using a hammer :P )

Ive removed all the Screws but it dosnt want to brake appart. an i dont want to force it in anyway.

ohh and ive been googling for about 4 hrs now with no luck..

Any help would be appreciated ..

??????Hawk??????

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Post by: plop on 23 January, 2005, 17:39:15

QuoteOriginally posted by ??????Hawk??????
Heya Peeps

Hope someone can help here ..

i need to remove the h/d from my sony vaio vgn-x505vp ( without using a hammer :P )

Ive removed all the Screws but it dosnt want to brake appart. an i dont want to force it in anyway.

ohh and ive been googling for about 4 hrs now with no luck..

Any help would be appreciated ..

??????Hawk??????

some force is nearly always needed, for example my crap compraq laptop has screws but also clips.
i currently have no idea where i left the screws but thats no prob as the clips hold everything 2gether.
and i can remember the same thing from opening a sony laptop from a friend.

plop

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Post by: ??????Hawk?????? on 23 January, 2005, 17:54:20

Cheers plop ..

i did kinda give it some force .. but if you know the laptop youll realise why i am very weary of forcing it ..

anyway i found out its not any sort of standard HD in it

so im left with the only option of ordering a Firewire CDrom Caddy..

all i wanna do is reinstall the thing lol

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Post by: ??????Hawk?????? on 24 January, 2005, 00:01:04

hi Mutor

yes its the Ultra Thin vgn-x505vp and ive got a Firewire CDrom caddy coming

i.LINK?1 S400 (IEEE 1394) = Firewire :))

and Bios allows Boot from i-link..

so alls well .. I hope

if not you may find it on E-bay in a couple of days lol

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Post by: ??????Hawk?????? on 25 January, 2005, 01:10:48

Heya peeps ..

ok ive hit another Hurdle

First Sony's i-link is ever so slightly different to Firewire and will only let the computer boot from
Sony's I-Link products... and there ????

so By means of a 4mm drill and a little Brute Force i managed to Prise it appart ..

ok so heres the new Hurdle..

How the F#*% do i connect This Little Drive (http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/Toshiba_MK2004GAL/HDD1422/C99526/) to a Standard ata socket ....

Any Help would be greatfull...

again im just about Googled out :(

Cheers

??????Hawk??????

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Post by: plop on 30 January, 2005, 18:35:08

don't they use sony's own 2.5"" drive ??

plop

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