Ouch.  I can’t access my 4 month old T250’s hard drive when I boot up.  Using boot disks I get a message that there is no operating system…..  I am rarely getting a light in the keyboard’s HD activity LED indicator.  I am HOPING maybe it’s just a loose connection, so have tried to remove the case.  I’m stuck at the rear left corner.  I think the kensington lock thingie is all that’s hold the case in place?  Anyone else know or know where I can access a service manual (not owner’s manual) so that I figure out how to access the HDD????

See my post @ this thread . There are some pics show you how to open your T

Thanks for the link.  I finally did the left hinge cover off, dissassembled and reassembled everything (twice).  Still no joy.  Sony support told me to do a system restore.  DriveSavers wants $500-2700 to recover my data.  Does anyone know if there’s and IDE adapter for the 1.8” drive?????  I’m so screwed….

I bought one of these a while ago:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Laptop-IDE-2-5-to-3-5-hard-drive-adapter-converter-HP_W0QQitemZ6789620182QQcategoryZ31513QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Or one of these:
http://search.ebay.com/1-8-enclosure_W0QQsojsZ1QQfromZR40QQsatitleZ1.8Q20enclosure

When mine died, I was outta luck getting anything off the drive.
I do more frequent backups now.

Good luck,

jc

Thanks for the tip.  That’s exactly what I did.  When I plugged the HDD & the enclosure into another computer, there is all was!  I ran a scan disk on that drive, put it back into the computer and was up and running again.  So, Windows crashed, not the HDD.