topic VAIO PCG-F809K Hard Disk Drive replacement questions in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-pcg-f809k-hard-disk-drive-replacement-questions/m-p/52052#M120413 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi to all,<BR /><BR />I own a Vaio model PCG-F809K since 2000. It's a very good machine for me, but the genuine Hard Disk Drive is now old and damaged (and will probably fail in few days)...<BR />I know how to replace it but I've heard about Bios Limitation concerning the size of the HDD (Original one is 30 GBytes), and I was planning to install a 40GB or even a 60GB one...<BR /><BR />Does somebody have further informations about this, or already performed a HDD replacement on a PCG-F809K Viao ?<BR />(I apologize if a similar message has been already post but I haven't found anything)<BR /><BR />Thank you in advance...<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:27:47 GMT Stellae 2004-11-28T18:27:47Z VAIO PCG-F809K Hard Disk Drive replacement questions https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-pcg-f809k-hard-disk-drive-replacement-questions/m-p/52052#M120413 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi to all,<BR /><BR />I own a Vaio model PCG-F809K since 2000. It's a very good machine for me, but the genuine Hard Disk Drive is now old and damaged (and will probably fail in few days)...<BR />I know how to replace it but I've heard about Bios Limitation concerning the size of the HDD (Original one is 30 GBytes), and I was planning to install a 40GB or even a 60GB one...<BR /><BR />Does somebody have further informations about this, or already performed a HDD replacement on a PCG-F809K Viao ?<BR />(I apologize if a similar message has been already post but I haven't found anything)<BR /><BR />Thank you in advance...<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:27:47 GMT https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-pcg-f809k-hard-disk-drive-replacement-questions/m-p/52052#M120413 Stellae 2004-11-28T18:27:47Z Re: VAIO PCG-F809K Hard Disk Drive replacement questions https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-pcg-f809k-hard-disk-drive-replacement-questions/m-p/52053#M120414 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The 40 Gb drive should work fine! :smileygrin: <BR /><BR />I would'nt go much above this though, because of that BIOS problem!<BR /><BR />CW<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:35:03 GMT https://community.sony.ua/t5/pcs-accessories/vaio-pcg-f809k-hard-disk-drive-replacement-questions/m-p/52053#M120414 Woody27 2004-11-28T19:35:03Z