Rajkumar said:
Hello sir:Am having a Sony Laptop Vaio type with model PCG-Z505HE.Hard disk
has corrupted.In this model there is no option of external Hard disk to
boot..I have tried of many option to boot by connecting external hard disk.
Plz give me a clear solution to boot up my System.
The user manual is available as the "Primary User Manual" on this page.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=PCGZ505HE
This is the user manual, a total of 1,400,537 bytes.
http://129.33.22.12/release/PCGZ505HE.PDF
In the manual, it mentions an optional external CDROM drive, the PCGA-CD51.
What I would try:
1) Remove the original hard drive from the computer. Somebody on this site
took their laptop apart.
http://modular.math.washington.edu/z505he/apart/
http://modular.math.washington.edu/z505he.html "Hard drive death! 10/21/02"
2) The person replacing the drive, in that article, used a
Toshiba MK4018. According to this advert, the drive would be
9.5mm thick, but you can check the thickness dimension when
you disassemble the laptop.
http://www.netcomdirect.com/tomk40at429n.html
3) Install the new hard drive. Save the old hard drive.
4) Install Windows, using the Recovery CD that came with the
laptop. Use the optional PCGA-CD51 for a CDROM drive. The PCGA-CD51
consists of a PCMCIA card and CDROM drive, that plugs into the slot
on the laptop. There is a picture of the CDROM drive and PCMCIA card
here. (People have also used this CDROM, to install Linux, but there
is a trick to the boot command - knoppix nopcmcia ide2=0x180,0x386 )
http://i1.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/cf/d1/480f_1.JPG
5) Once Windows is installed on the replacement hard drive, then you
can work on extracting your data files from the dead drive. A
USB enclosure for a 2.5" drive could be used to do that. The
2.5" 8GB drive in the laptop, will probably have a 44 pin connector,
where the pins are 2mm apart. A 2.5" USB enclosure would convert
from the IDE protocol, to USB. There is a possibility that the operating
power of the old drive, is slightly greater than 2.5 watts, and this
means you may need a USB cable with two connectors on it (to extract
a maximum of 5 watts from the laptop).
Instead of a disk drive external enclosure to hold the old
drive, you can also get USB to 2.5" IDE adapter kits. This one
even comes with a power source, to aid in the delivery of power
to the little hard drive. I would prefer this solution, to the
use of an enclosure, if you can find a kit similar to this.
http://www.sabrent.com/products/specs/usb-dsc5.htm
In this picture, second image from the left, you can see the power
adapter on the right hand side, is connected to the adapter on the
left. The hard drive is connected to the adapter.
http://www.sabrent.com/pics/USB-DSC5-1.gif
If the drive really is inoperable, then you won't get any useful
response from this experiment. A data recovery firm would be your
last hope, of getting any files back.
Step 5 above is optional, and you don't need to touch the old drive,
if you don't want to get any files from it. So the hardest part of
the above procedure, is finding and purchasing a PCGA-CD51 CDROM.
You can probably find a replacement 2.5" hard drive, if you search around
enough. Make sure the new drive is thin enough, and the capacity of
the drive is small enough, to work with the laptop. An old laptop like
that, may have a capacity limitation in its BIOS or hardware, so I
would not purchase too large a drive. At least, unless you can find
information on what the largest drive is, that the laptop can support.
I could not find any information on the BIOS interface for that
computer, so I don't know what other boot options it might have.
Good luck,
Paul
