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Sony PCG-717 Hard Drive
Hard drives can come in many different capacities and brands. Hard drives can be touchy and they will stop working whenever they want for a wide variety of reasons. Your Sony PCG-717 has a hard drive that stores the operating system and all other info for the computer. Replacing the drive is quite a simple task if you have ever replaced a hard drive before, of course! The type of hard drive that you would need to purchase all depends on the connection inside your laptop. The storage capacity of the hard drive is simply a personal preference as most computers will be able to accommodate any size hard drive you install.
Main clues that the all-important hard drive is going out
- Your laptop is jerky or does weird stuff off and on through the day
- The laptop shuts down when you use certain files
- The system may take forever to begin loading and may never boot all the way
- On some old hard drives you could possible hear a tick, tick, tick sound coming from within the computer
- The computer may shut down without warning throughout the day
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