#SSD FOR SONY VAIO S SERIES UPGRADE#

You can then boot your machine and migrate the appropriate partitions. I had to pull the drive at least twice when I did it which is pretty frustrating.Р”Р„fter switching out the drive in the drive tray, perform the same steps in reverse to put the drive back in the PC.

If the tiny screws fall down under the drive tray, you have to completely remove the tray again in order to retrieve the screws. When you remove (or reinsert) the drive, be very careful with the screws. The following image shows the laptop with battery removed:

The following image shows me removing the battery by pulling the slot tab:Р”Р‡inally, you have to remove the screws on the drive tray, disconnect the small connector with the РІР‚СљBРІР‚Сњ on it, then remove the drive tray. The following image shows the laptop with battery exposed: Next, with the back off, you must remove the battery. The screws are tiny so you have to be careful when removing them. First, you have to get access to the battery compartment by removing the screws on the front edge of the laptop bottom. Boy was it harder than I expected СЂСџв„ўвЂљР”РЋ) The Vaio has only 1 internal SATA interfaceР”Сћ) The Vaio has an internal battery and tricky placement of the drive bayР”Р€) The Intel SSD software doesnРІР‚в„ўt work unless you have the drive directly connectedР”РЋ) Use an external USB drive (see challenge 3РІР‚В¦)Р”Р€) I had to use a third party solution to migrate my data connected to the external USB interfaceР”Вisassembly is difficult.

#SSD FOR SONY VAIO S SERIES UPGRADE#

I recently saw a sweet deal on the Intel 320 series SSD and decided it was a good time to upgrade to solid state on my Vaio laptop, a VPCSA РІР‚вЂњ which is quite a nice ultrabook, by the way.

Ssd for sony vaio s series