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    VPCZ Seires: SDD/HDD swap

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by naujoks, May 7, 2011.

  1. naujoks

    naujoks Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know if it's easily possible to move the Raid 0 128GB SSD from a Vaio VPCZ to a VPCZ that has a mechanical hard drive?
     
    naujoks, May 7, 2011
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    Profy_X Notebook Consultant

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    i am also interested to do something like so,see my thread for some answers
     
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  3. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    Yes, just take out the SSD stack, the ribbon cable (optional: take out your ODD and its ribbon cable and replace the HDD caddy with the ODD) and put it in the other Z.

    If you want to clone just your data and system SSD->HDD, click on the "Fully backed up" link in my sig for more info.
     
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    naujoks Notebook Consultant

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    Will the new Z recognise the raid stack as that, and can I expect it too boot alright from it or will I need to reinstall everything?
     
    naujoks, May 8, 2011
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    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    I think it should work fine w/o clean install. Perhaps it will find some hardware changes upon the first boot and perhaps you might need to reactivate Win7. But no big deal at all.
     
    pyr0, May 8, 2011
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