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Notebook Hard Drive Failure - Is it easy to replace?

johncrook
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Notebook Hard Drive Failure - Is it easy to replace?

I have a GRT-716S and the hard drive appears to be failing. It went into lock-up during a video capture using firewire and simply wouldn't stop activity. I had to turn it off and thereafter the operating system wouldn't boot. So I then restored the C-drive from the Sony recovery disk, however after this it now takes 10 minutes to boot up and sometimes when I try to install missing software, it fails to boot and I have to start again with the recovery disk.

So I am pretty convinced the hard drive has gone aor is about to go. So could anyone tell me please "Is the drive easy to replace and where do I obtain a new one?"

Any help greatly appreciated.

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kee-lo_
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Usually it's quite simple.
You need a 2.5" drive, 7200RPM if possible for better performance.