Upgrade Sony VAIO Laptop Hard Drive to SSD Step by Step  

Upgrade Sony VAIO Laptop Hard Drive to SSD Step by Step


Table of Contents
  1. Reasons to perform Sony laptop hard drive upgrade
  2. How to upgrade Sony laptop hard drive
  3. Sony Vaio hard disk not detected
  4. Summary

Reasons to perform Sony laptop hard drive upgrade

Upgrading or replacing hard drive with SSD or new HDD is the most common way to improve system performance on PCs, so as to Sony laptops. Sony VAIO comes with HDDs in different storage capacities, 500GB, 750GB and 1TB. Whichever the capacity is, hard drive is doomed to fail after several years of use as well as ubiquitous and countless potential network threads. When the system crashes caused by virus, for instance, it is inevitable to replace Sony VAIO hard drive with new hard disk.

Sony VAIO

Also, you may want to do Sony VAIO hard drive upgrade because of its awful performance, for example, 15 minutes for system startup. There are many factors that will result in long-time boot, such as too many boot startups or hard drive failure. However, replace Sony VAIO hard drive with SSD definitely will make this condition better. What’s more, low disk space cause hard drive upgrading as well.

In general, new hard disk brings better performance in computer experience. Now learn how to replace Sony VAIO laptop hard drive in detail in following parts.

How to upgrade Sony laptop hard drive

In the first place, to upgrade Sony laptop hard drive you need to find:

Before upgrading, free download this software to have a try. Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista supported. For server users, try Qiling Disk Master Server.

Step 1. Install and launch Qiling Disk Master on VAIO E or S series. Then, create a disk backup for Sony Vaio laptop.

Disk Backup

Important: If you backup to USB drive, it should be large enough.

Step 2. Create a bootable media (USB or CD/DVD) to boot off VAIO later.

Select Bootable Media

Step 3. Shut down Sony VAIO and remove the battery.

Important: Do not touch any other cables or circuit on the laptop. Take a picture of the caddy before lifting it out will help you place the new disk in right location later.

Step 4. Install new disk or SSD and boot from the created bootable device.

Change Boot Order

Step 5. Connect the device that contains disk backup image to Sony laptop. Then restore the backup image to new disk with Qiling Disk Master. One or two restarts are required.

Select Entire Disk or Partition

Preview and Restore

Notes:

Now you may replace Sony Vaio hard drive with SSD successfully and use your computer as normal. Since your computer may run into issues due to many reasons, to protect your system and disk on it, it's suggested to keep this software after upgrading.

You can choose to create a disk backup, system backup, partition backup or file backup based on your needs. And single backup only keep data currently on it, if you want to keep all the changes on it and prevent backup disk full issue from the beginning, try the following features during the backup process:

Options: It allows you to write comments, compress, split the backup and you can set email notifications.

Schedule Backup: You can set fixed intervals to backup your disk regularly, such as Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Event trigger and USB plug in.

Backup Scheme: You can choose different backup methods to perform the scheduled backup. Since incremental backups are more demanding to restore, it is recommended that you choose differential backup method. You can also enable automatic backup cleanup feature to save disk space.

By Quantity

In this case, you need to upgrade pro trial, since it has a 30-day usage limite. And this page provide 10% off for one computer.)

Sony Vaio hard disk not detected

Some users report Sony Vaio hard disk not detected sometimes, in this case, you need to determin why the BIOS can't find it. You can start from the following reasons:

The above reasons are the most possible reasons. If you don't know how to determin, please ask a professional for help.

Summary

Sony laptop hard drive upgrade to new hard drive or SSD is not as difficult as you think. However, more attention and care will do great help because this is a sort of long-run operation and you cannot be more careful with your data and system. This method also applies to ASUS Q501LA SSD upgrade, HP, Lenovo laptops etc. You can keep Qiling Disk Master on the laptop as regular backup solution since it is the best alternative to File History as well as Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility.

If you want to protect unlimited computers within your company, you can pick Qiling Disk Master Technician. With the inbuilt Qiling Image Deploy tool, you are also allowed to deploy/restore system image file on server-side computer to multiple client-side computers over network. You can download this software to discover more useful features.

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