Thursday, November 08, 2012

SONY - VAIO - PCG-7X2L _ HARD DISK REPLACEMENT PROCEDURE





  • Disconnect the Power & remove the battery.
  • Turn the laptop over, and remove all screws at the bottom.

  • Remove the memory cover.



  • Remove the screw underneath the memory cover.


  • Remove the DVD drive.


  • Remove three black screws underneath the DVD drive.
  • Remove three screws under the battery cover.  
  • Remove the keyboard using a letter opener to press in five plastic tabs at the bottom of the keys to release the keyboard.





  • Remove keyboard flat cable by sliding and lifting up on the back part of the white connector.  


  • Remove the keyboard.
  • Remove mouse touch-pad flat cable by lifting up its lock on the black part of the connector.  Pull the blue tab to release the cable.
  • Use the blade of a letter opener to open the plastic cover.  



  • Remove the two screws that fixes the hard disk case to motherbaord.


  • Slide out the enclosed hard disk
  • Remove the 4 screws from the side of the hard disk.
  • Partition the hard disk and load OS.
Check this link to download the drivers to this laptop.


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