Sony Vaio vgn-tz191n Need advice.

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  1. Parmenion

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    Hi, Have Sony vgn-tz191n laptop and it's great. The only problem I have with it is the size of disk 32G flash drive. Was wondering if it's possible to replace or upgrade this with either a bigger flash drive or normal sata drive. The sony guide and faq state that this is not possible.

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    Sony should know. Batting ones head on wall only makes messy wall.
     
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    can get external hd for more storage space.
     
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    Thanks for those words of wisdom GRAKEL2K8. Officially Sony say you cant upgrade or replace the HDD. This I imagine is because they want us to spend extra money going to one of their Sony service centre's. DPP the external HDD option is a good one but kind of goes against the whole point of buying a small laptop when you have to plug in a lot of extras. What I really want to do is replace the 32G solid state drive with a normal sata 250G drive and use the recovery disk to get it back to factory default. Wondering if anyone knew if this was possible.
     
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    what type of connector does the flash drive use? when i'm talking about external hd's for the laptop, i'm talking about using 2.5" laptop drives in a 2.5" usb or firewire external enclosure. can you remove the flash drive out of the laptop?
     
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    Hi ddp, thats exactly what I'm trying to find out. The downloaded manuals/userguides have very little info on the actual hardware. The only thing mentioned is a "ultra ata drive" and "solid state drive". I know that the 2.5" external drives are small but I would prefer to change the internal HD for a bigger one rather than having to connect peripherals.

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    can you go into the bios to see what it shows for drives as is possible the bios might not be setup to use internal hd's?
     
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    I'll have a look in the bios settings over the weekend although might be monday (Just heading away now for the weekend). Thanks have a good weekend.
     
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    same to you
     
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    Had a look at the bios settings and wasnt much help. Bios shows two drive bays with one in use, no other info. I had a online chat with Sony support guy and reading between the lines he hinted that replacing the HDD should be possible although it's unsupported. I think I'll just go ahead and take it apart and have a look. I'll post the results for anyone having the same idea with this model.
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    if take it apart then take flash drive with you to your local computer store to see if they have a drive that uses same connector & hopefully about same dimensions.
     
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    Yeah will do. Have a spare laptop disk if it doesnt fit i'll do as you suggest. Thanks again.
     
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    2.5" laptop ide drives are standard except for thickness as i found out with a customer a couple years back.
     
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