I have a sony notebook computer (VAIO K37) that I bought in Nov 2004. It had been working ok in anticipation of recently the AC power plug was loose and I was not able to charge the battery. So I brought it to a local shop for repair. It took them more than 14 days to fix this simple problem. The tech kept saying that they were waiting for the part and may possibly not give me my computer back. I knew something was incorrect but eventually they fixed the power plug. Last night, my computer nearly crashed, with an warning message that read:” SMART failure predicted on TOSHIBA harddrivexxxx……why am I having a toshiba harddrive on a sony notebook? Did the repair shop take my original hard drive? Any feedback is momentously appreciated!
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Answer by poebassman
Toshiba and Hitachi make most of the portable hard drives.
Sounds like your hard drive is going terrible. Hard drives have a mean time between failure MTBF of about 3 years so you are due.
You were lucky they were able to fix the loose power connector. Often you find the power connector as part of the motherboard which would be a costly item to fix.
I judge the hd force have been hurt due to the power problem and you should get the drive replaced before it crashes leaving you without any data. Backup what you can now with a flash drive or cd.
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Sony doesn’t make hard drives. The specs for your computer call for an 80GB HD. I seriously doubt that a repair shop wanted your original drive and hackneyed all of your data to a different hard drive which they installed in your computer. If you want to be absolutely certain then go to the Sony website and under Support you can email your question to them or even chat with a tech if they have that option. In any event back up your hard drive and get a new one as your drive is apparently failing.