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Sony VGN-AW170Y Hard Drive

Hard drives can be touchy and they will fail you at any time for a wide variety of reasons. Your Sony VGN-AW170Y has a hdd, or hard disk drive, which houses every single piece of information for the computer. Hard drives can come in varying physical sizes and brands. Replacing the drive is pretty straight forward if you have an idea of what you are doing, of course! The type of hard drive to buy depends on your computer. The capacity size of the hard drive is simply a matter of choice as this computer can accept any sized drive.

What are the indications that my HDD is crapping out?

The Sony laptop crashes at seemingly random times even while using it
Your laptop freezes or acts crazy off and on through the day
It may hesitate to begin loading and may only boot up once in a while
On older computers you may occasionally hear a distinct clicking sound coming from within the computer
Your Sony laptop may crash when you open a particular file

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