First of all hello everyone, nice community you’ve built around here! Definetly a great resource.

Ok, I recently became mesmerized at this series of laptops due to its portability and beauty if you may call it that. So I did some research an decided to buy myself one but I did not have the 1,500 to shell out on a used one so I decided to buy one off of ebay that was not booting up due to a harddrive problem.

I am a “geek” so I decided I would give it a try and bid for it since it was a lot cheaper than a working one and I was sure I could fix it. To make the story short I received it (payed $813 for it)  :D and dismantled it in order to check what kind of Harddrive this little beast had, got the HD out, and it turns out it’s a toshiba 40 gig MK4004gah.

So where can I get a good price on these HDs? I did some searches but the are kinda scarce.

Thanks for the help in advance!
Ri.

[quote author=“ritec”]So where can I get a good price on these HDs? I did some searches but the are kinda scarce.

Hope this helps:

http://resellerratings.shopping.com/xFS?KW=1.8+toshiba&FN=Hard+Drives&FD=1701

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=toshiba+1.8+hard+drive&btnG=Search+Froogle

You might want to get a recovery disc from Sony Parts to restore the operating system.

http://servicesales.sel.sony.com/web/viewItemDetail.do?operation=getItemDetail&itemID=493211&category=3&categoryName=Computer

Good luck fixing up the system.

Jashsu,

Thanks for the help, I actually ended up buying it from:

https://www.computergiants.com

They had it for 200 dollars plus 36 Shipping and Handling next day to Puerto Rico. By the way the guy who sold it to me Also included the recovery DVDs so I am in luck!

best regards,
ri.

Has anyone installed linux on this? I am planning on having both UNIX and XP on this machine.

[quote author=“ritec”]
Has anyone installed linux on this?

check out the “Linux and Other OSes” forum.

[quote author=“ritec”]

Has anyone installed linux on this? I am planning on having both UNIX and XP on this machine.

Looks like it.

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewforum.php?f=15

jc