How do i remove the harddrive from sony vaio pcg-8l5l

Turn laptop over and remove screws from HDD compartment door.. Remove screws holding HDD in place and remove.

Sony Vaio PCG and some Vaio VGN Series use the last 7 digits of the laptop serial number to calculate the bios master password. The serial number for a Sony Vaio is often located on the bottom of the laptop on a white sticker. The serial number may also be found by removing the battery and checking in the battery compartment. The link to unlockbiosrecovery.com below works on the following models:
PCG-C, PCG-F, PCG-GR, PCG-GRS, PCG-GRT, PCG-GRV, PCG-GRX, PCG-GRZ, PCG-N, PCG-NV205, PCG-QR, PCG-R, PCG-SR, PCG-SRX, PCG-TR, PCG-V, PCG-VX, PCG-X, PCG-Z, VGN-B, VGN-FS, VGN-S, VGN-T, VGN-TX1, VGN-X
I use http://www.unlockbiosrecovery.com/Unlock_Sony_Bios.php
For $20 they use the last 7 digits of the laptop serial number to calculate the bios master password and then email it to you in an hour. They guarantee it to work and you can call them if you have a question.

try to load the BIOS to default

it sounds like a problem with your harddrive. if you have an oem copy of your OS then you could do a chkdsk /r from this. If not then the harddrive will have to be removed and the chkdsk /r done from a data reader from another computer. Hope this helps, leave feedback

maybe this is like yours. cant find your exact one
http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/sonyhdswap/

This might be handy: http://www.sony-driver.com/notebook-driver/PCG-C1/
http://www.notebook-driver.com/sony-vaio/drivers-and-utilities-for-sony-vaio-pcg-c1-picture-series-notebook/
http://www.notebook-driver.com/sony-vaio/sony-vaio-pcg-c1-driver-for-win98/

Hi,
Memory Upgrade for Sony VAIO PCG-K35 Laptop, the Sony VAIO PCG-K35 Laptop takes the PC2100 DDR SDRAM SODIMMs Memory Type, and comes installed with 512 MB = 256 MB (removable) + 256 MB (removable) of Memory. You can upgrade your Sony VAIO PCG-K35 Laptop to up to a maximum of 1.0 GB Memory, the system has 2 sockets to install Memory, already with 512 MB = 256 MB (removable) + 256 MB (removable) standard Memory installed. For best Laptop performance use the maximum amount of allowed Memory per slot for your Laptop.


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I would say either a bad harddrive or bad boot sector. If you are looking for a DIY solution, youll want to test the harddrive by running disk wizard or something similar or pulling the harddrive and putting it in a harddrive enclosure (available from NewEgg.com). The enclosure will hookup to another computer through usb or firewire and will allow you to backup your files if the harddrive is still good. If the harddrive isnt good, youll get errors while copying the files or it wont allow you to access the harddrive at all. Else, take it to a computer repairman to have them pull the harddrive and run tests on it.

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Take off the battery and try to plug ac-acapter.Notice that you have any light on the notebook incase you do have like power light.... then follow this step
it could be the motherboard problem but what I would like to test here first is remove some component one-by-one and try to turn your notebook on and see...(see mean any noise or light come up)
1.remove battery
2.remove harddrive
3.remove memory
4.if possible remove cdrom
5.anymore incase you have
if nothing work then its a motherboard problem.
goodluck,takecare.

Hi qwerty2119, click on the link below.

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=Sony+VAIO+PCG-GR370+laptop+MEMORY&um=1&ie=UTF-8

You can only use memory PCG-GR370.
To reach 1GB buy two (2) of these.
http://www.upgradecomputermemory.com/ram.cfm/Memory/S/Sony-VAIO/Sony-Notebooks-VAIO-PCG-Series/VAIO-GR-PCG-GR-Series-Notebook/VAIO-PCG-GR370/256MB-Sony-VAIO-Notebook-PC133-SDRAM-SODIMM.html

Mike