Need to increase size of split hard drive

below is a link for a 320 gig hard drive for your model, i hope this helps

http://www.upgradecomputermemory.com/ram.cfm//memory/s/sony-vaio/sony-notebooks-vaio-pcg-series/VAIO-GR-PCG-GR-Series-Notebook/VAIO-PCG-GR370/320GB-Notebook-Hard-Drive-for-the-Sony-VAIO-PCG-GR370.html

Did you connect the drive to cable spot closest to the motherboard on the primary IDE channel? is it formatted? Did you try the drive on the Second IDE channel? Can your system support a 160 GIG drive?(if not try partitioning the drive.). Is the power and data cable connected properly?(the red line on the data cable should be closest to the power plug on the drive.)

First try reducing your page File - then move the data - and then, potentially, increase the page file back again.

To change the Page File size, right click on My Computer, go to Properties - then the Advanced Tab, then click on Performance Settings, then Advanced Tab and Virtual Memory section - click the Change button - and reduce the size of the pagefile on the drive that you need space.

Hi,

14GB is not usually enough for a C drive. Because the system restore feature is good at hogging up your space. And yes gettting a new hard drive should do the trick. But make sure that the windows drive is allocated atleast 20-40GB. Maxtor drives are an inexpensive option. I have seen a 1000GB Maxtor drive priced at around 120$!

Sai.

It may be that your machine can not handle a drive of that size. When I replace hard drives I always try to replace them with the size they came with just in case they do not support a larger size.

Hi there!

How long have you been using it? Was it the first time that you encountered that problem? Can you describe specifically what sound it creates?

I know someone that bought a toshiba mk6006gah for his sony vaio TR1 series, so i think it is. Just look at the harddisk the local shop took out for you. Somewhere on the disk is told wich size it is. You could also give me the typenumber of that disk. Then i could tell you the size for certain.

i have a sony vaio, and there's another way to do this..let me know if that chat doesn't work out for you.

You should have no problems with any drive, just make sure you buy an IDE drive not a SATA drive.

Don

Have yout tried to recover without any partition defined? Try to execute with your hard drive clean.