VGN-Z46GD replace SSD

Did anybody has experience replace a SSD for VGN-Z46GD? Is it very hard to open it?
This laptop quite good, I'm thinking try to upgrade to Win10.

 

To open the Z46, just follow the youtube video
You can replace the HDD by SSD with no problem. I had the Z48GD, I upgraded the WiFi to a WiFi ac and replace the DVD by another SSD

If you are running Windows 7 or 8 at the moment, just upgrade to windows 10 (not fresh install), During windows installation, your display card driver will be removed, only Standard Display is install but it will work. your Nvidia display (SPEED Mode) will never work again.

 

Get a 2.5" SSD. You should not have any problems. The SSD might be a little thinner - if so, just add a layer or two of thick paper or something. Don't bother getting the fastest SSD out there - your motherboard will be the limiting factor.

Look here for display drivers: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/my-discoveries-on-vaio-z’s-hybrid-graphics.342947/

 

Thanks guy!
I will try it

 

Indeed, I tried Andrew08 display driver for VAIO Z48GD, but experienced some problem, e.g. can't adjust brightness in SPEED mode, brightness can be adjust in STAMINA mode, and ocassionally flicking screen appear in STAMINA mode
So I revert to basic, just use the default display driver bundle with Windows 10 installation, at least there is no problem on brightness adjustment and flicking screen is gone. This good enough for me on web browsing, office application and watching mkv.

 

I have replaced the SSD, however I can't clean install windows 10
I got an error at the beginning of the setup

 

@Uruzu5
Which mode have you set the controller to in BIOS? I think you should go with RAID mode, but you may try if you could use AHCI mode first. IDE would sure work as well but it's outdated by now.

When in RAID mode, check 'show' to show the RAID configuration at boot. You will have to create a RAID volume first, this will then be visible to Windows setup.