Hard drive. I bought a vaio laptop 17 " 6 weeks ago and the hard drive crashed/wont start took it to best buy to replace or fix, is that Normal ????

If it's 3 weeks old return it. Or you can do a System Restore/Recovery. Take a look at this forum for the Restore/Recovery Procedure: http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/t/19441985.aspx

you will need another PC just to clone your old hdd to the new one

my sony vaio vgn-cr353 shows in bios hard drive not found

If the Computer was serviced from Sony then the Hard Disk will be re-imaged and REcovery Partiton will be created in the Computer.


You can create the Recovery Disc for the Computer using the Recovery Partition.


Follow the steps as mentioned the Article to create the Recovery Discs.
http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=C1002214&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KNOWLEDGEARTICLES_1_1&dialogID=194692373&stateId=1 0 194696415

You can use the Article ID if the Link didn't work in the Esupport.sony.com webpage C1002214.

Go to this site and buy a sata hard drive and with the drive will be a disc that will allow you to copy everything to new drive you will have to slave the new drive before you copy but it will have instructions http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2795126&CatId=139

Hello,

Try connecting the drive to another pc with a usb adapter, create a partition and format it. Then put the drive back in the vaio and reinstall windows. This should fix the problem.

Hello my friend, regarding on your problem since you bought that laptop 2 weeks ago i presume that your laptop is currently under warranty so to avoid warranty void kindly return it to the supplier or the shop where you buy that laptop in order to ensure that they will accomudate your laptop cause it is under warranty. Also let them check and fix the problem cause the problem of that laptop found inside meaning the BUS or connector fromo your motherboard to your hard drive which is why it cannot found the Operating System cause it does not locate and detect your hard drive where you stored you Operating System.
Hope this will able to solve your problem using this recommendation. If you  need more assistance just reply to this post. If you find this recommendation/solution able to help your problem solved please rate this solution. Thank you and Godbless.

what happen to my PC when i turn on " VGC LS1" got white screen but i still can hear the Windows run normal?? Help Please!! thanks

Though Best Buy should of removed that for you, Sony has a hidden recovery partition that will restore everything to factory settings wiping your hard drive of anything you have now. When you boot up your computer press F12 to enter the recovery manager....If it's not F12 try F11, They are different for each manufacture.

Hope this helps.

Laptop hard drives can be a bit louder than the new desktops and because you're closer may be more noticable. The sound from that youtube is about normal - this video is the sound of the heads crashing - mechanical drive failure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRj6dP1Pi1Q
Just to be safe - BACKUP your important data and if you don't have the install disks, make a set.