topic Reusing old vaio hard drive? in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/reusing-old-vaio-hard-drive/m-p/137261#M85350 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,<BR />This is my second Vaio- C1z/B - nice and portable with plenty of HD space unlike my old Vaio PCG-GRZ615G which suddenly<BR />died with an unrepairable motherboard problem. I hope my latest Vaio lasts longer than 4 years !!<BR /><BR />Anyway, I was wondering if its possible to put my old hard drive<BR />into one of those small cases and use it via USB as an external<BR />storage drive after reformatting and can I still access my old files<BR />on it, or would the operating system cause a problem.<BR />As you may gather I am up on the technicalities of these things.<BR /><BR />Dave<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:07:38 GMT fisheyedave 2006-12-24T18:07:38Z Reusing old vaio hard drive? https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/reusing-old-vaio-hard-drive/m-p/137261#M85350 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,<BR />This is my second Vaio- C1z/B - nice and portable with plenty of HD space unlike my old Vaio PCG-GRZ615G which suddenly<BR />died with an unrepairable motherboard problem. I hope my latest Vaio lasts longer than 4 years !!<BR /><BR />Anyway, I was wondering if its possible to put my old hard drive<BR />into one of those small cases and use it via USB as an external<BR />storage drive after reformatting and can I still access my old files<BR />on it, or would the operating system cause a problem.<BR />As you may gather I am up on the technicalities of these things.<BR /><BR />Dave<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:07:38 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/reusing-old-vaio-hard-drive/m-p/137261#M85350 fisheyedave 2006-12-24T18:07:38Z Re: Reusing old vaio hard drive? https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/reusing-old-vaio-hard-drive/m-p/137262#M85351 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Dave and welcome to the forum.<BR /><BR />This is perfectly feasible, but don’t format the drive or you will lose all data. Just install the drive in the caddy and attach it to your new machine via USB and you should be able to access all files.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:15:35 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/pcs-accessories/reusing-old-vaio-hard-drive/m-p/137262#M85351 rich912 2006-12-24T18:15:35Z