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    SZ HD upgrade possible?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Sen5es, Jun 24, 2009.

  1. Sen5es

    Sen5es Notebook Consultant

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    SZ HD upgrade possible?

    Is there a way I can replace my hardrive while keeping the sony recovery tool? I find that tool very convenient.
     
    Sen5es, Jun 24, 2009
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    sniper_sung Notebook Evangelist

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    The easiest way I've found is to:

    1) plug the new hard disk as an external hdd;
    2) use WinHex or any other disk tool to copy everything (clone disk, sector to sector) to the new hard disk;
    3) install the new hard disk.
     
    sniper_sung, Jun 24, 2009
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  3. Sen5es

    Sen5es Notebook Consultant

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    I heard that after you won't be able to resize your partition size.
     
    Sen5es, Jun 24, 2009
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    I use Acronis since years, clone the old HDDs. Done several times on 2 SZs that I owned. Only once had a problem, called Acronis and they were really good, problem solved. They sent me link to download some kind of bootable disc that i use since for partitioning, resizing etc. It is Linux based I think, anyway very quick and the fact it works outside of OS has advantages.
    SZ is definitely the most difficult to swap discs but by now I have some practice. Having female assistant (with long nails) helps.
     
    aviray, Jun 24, 2009
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  5. Sen5es

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    After you brought it over. Were you able to use the recovery tool?
     
    Sen5es, Jun 25, 2009
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    You can use the Recevory DVD to recover your new HDD.
     
    NHT, Jun 25, 2009
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  7. Vogelbung

    Vogelbung I R Judgemental

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    Once I get any machine to an initially usable state, I use Acronis to back up the entire machine along with the recovery partition and I hang onto it.

    On the Dells I've Acronis'd the entire drive as installed, swapped the drive for RAID0 SSD's and put everything back with no issues. I've ping-ponged a lot of installs on VAIO's using Acronis, complete with erasing then putting back the recovery partition from a backup - and I've never had problems.
     
    Vogelbung, Jun 25, 2009
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