March 24, 200718 yr Hi, anyone any ideas on the above. My Sony laptop hard drive has died and I need to replace it. However finding a supplier in Thailand seems almost impossible. Tried Pantip plaza and local shop in Krabi which did plenty of ringing around, all to no avail. Did order replacement from UK but like a fool got the wrong part!! DOH! Model num is MK4004GAH, same unit in many ipod and iriver mp3 players....I have one in my iriver player but Im not too interested in swapping it out of that.... Cheers
March 24, 200718 yr The Sony service centre, in Silom, or the Sony {company owned} shop in Paragon should be able to source the HDD, though at Sony prices Regards PS You could try Fortune, which has a number of hardware outlets, though see you may be in Krabi which makes things a little more difficult.
March 24, 200718 yr i recently had to change the hard drive of my laptop. I went to a toshiba store, and they gave me an ibm hard drive instead.... does it have to be the same? I thought so, but apparently it don't matter an inkling what brand of hdd you use.
March 25, 200718 yr Hi, anyone any ideas on the above. My Sony laptop hard drive has died and I need to replace it. However finding a supplier in Thailand seems almost impossible. Tried Pantip plaza and local shop in Krabi which did plenty of ringing around, all to no avail.Did order replacement from UK but like a fool got the wrong part!! DOH! Model num is MK4004GAH, same unit in many ipod and iriver mp3 players....I have one in my iriver player but Im not too interested in swapping it out of that.... Cheers lots for sale at Singapore ebay: http://search.ebay.com.sg/hard-drive_MP3-P...Z56169QQsaslcZ2
March 25, 200718 yr Laptop/Notebook disks are 2.5" and the make of disk does not matter at all. 1.8" disks are for the IPOD. Time to upgrade to a larger disk capacity? Just watch out that the latest disks are SATA and yours is almost certainly IDE.
March 25, 200718 yr Laptop/Notebook disks are 2.5" and the make of disk does not matter at all.1.8" disks are for the IPOD. Time to upgrade to a larger disk capacity? Just watch out that the latest disks are SATA and yours is almost certainly IDE. Not in all cases, a few ultra-portable notebooks did use the 1.8 HDD's. Fujitsu for example. Regards
March 25, 200718 yr Yep, my friend's ultraportable Samsung notebook uses 1.8" hard drives. They're really slow and have very little capacity, but they're the only choice for size/weight.
March 27, 200718 yr Author Thanks for the replies folks. Think Singapore Ebay best bet at the moment. Yes definately 1.8" drive as I have already removed it from my Sony vgn-t150p. But just in case, Kayo, where was the toshiba store and was it a 1.8" drive? Not all 1.8" drives are the same, Toshiba do many connection types, which is where I fell down. Got a ZIF connector model from UK but thats not what I have.... :-( Patience is a virtue and would have saved myself a lot of hassle if Id remembered that! ;-)
April 4, 200718 yr Author Finally my drive arrived from USA this morning. Managed to get a 60gig model, a nice 20gig increase, Toshiba GK6006MAH. Took one week to be delivered. Ebay special. Good price too.
April 4, 200718 yr Nice one Collie. Good luck with it. BTW, the store I mentioned in earlier post was South new Delhi. I didn't think it would be helpful to you.
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