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    vaio fall on ground, help needed

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by dr.pratik, Mar 30, 2010.

  1. dr.pratik

    dr.pratik Notebook Evangelist

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    hey all,
    i messed up .my laptop suffered a grave fall on hard ground.and it was running at that time.luckily my lcd screen is intact and hard disk has taken all brunt.i have few issues i want your help in.

    its a vaio fz 140 machine which has clean installation of windows 7 and i have swapped back my old 200 gb toshiba drive in.the drive which was in the laptop at time of fall is western digital 500 GB drive which i had replaced under RMA.

    now how do i check if my laptop is in perfect state?

    it does boot and all but i feel its slow and i find it slow in data transfer.

    is their any utility from sony that i can run to check for hardware diagnostics..??

    pls help me in this.

    other thing what is the drive state for RMA'd drive?

    will western digital replace it under RMA?

    help me pls.

    i am eagerly waiting.
     
  2. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Ouch! I don't know of any sony diagnostics. You might try HDTune. As I recall that older drive was a slower drive. Are you sure what you are seeing is not just attributable to that?

    If WD knows it took a shock I doubt if they will replace it.

    Gary