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    replacing hd in sony Z series

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by lazytrax, Oct 10, 2008.

  1. lazytrax

    lazytrax Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay... i have finally received my laptop from portable one after 3 weeks later.. Now i have a wd 7.2k 320 gb that i want to swap in there. Is there any DIY guides or have anyone ever did this and if there is something i should know about?
     
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    Yes. Someone did it.

    BTW, I'm still waiting my z590 from portable one.
     
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    do u know where i can find it? and i agree with your sig. portable one said they get me the z in like 3 days.. and it ends up 3 weeks and i received my customized laptop un customized. i have to do it myself.
     
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    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=272690&page=90

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    They said they shipped it in 2-4 days, it ends up 8 days (not include delivery time). Mine comes with a missing ac adapter and a wrong OS system, they put it their portable one optimized system. Now I'm waiting them to send me an exchange. I have no idea on how long it will take and they just blame it on Sony.

    Did you pay for your customized request? Do they just send you a hard drive and make you install it by yourself?
     
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    i did it, i pretty much followed isamuX's guide
    it is pretty tricky to separate the keyboard at the part of the dvd drive
    and it is pretty tricky to get the 2 metal bracers off the HDD
     
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    the only thing i had customized is the ram i just wanted to add more ram in the sucker.. so story goes as followed.. i ordered it and i called them like 4 days later asking the status. they said it would ship within 48 hours. another 4 days later i called again. they said they were oos on ram. they said that it would come within the next 2 days and they will ship it out right when it comes in. after that i called again another 4 days later. now they are out of stock on the laptop. i wrote them a nice fat letter saying they have a retarded operation going on over there. and i told them to just sendme the laptop and ill install everything myself. thats pretty much how my story goes... now i have it after 3 weeks later.
     
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    wow, p1 is really going downhill
     
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    i thought they were good since everyone is getting it from there... but guess i was wrong... maybe its just me... never know..
     
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