topic Help replacing HDD with SSD drive in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/help-replacing-hdd-with-ssd-drive/m-p/344390#M21976 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I know this is probably outside the scope of support for a Vaio 2012 UEFI&nbsp; S Series laptop but any help and tips that can be provided on tools to use and procedures would be really helpful to me and perhaps the community.</P><P></P><P>My aim is to clone and replace my GPT format 640GB HD with a Crucial M4 256GB SSD with the goal of ensuring the "power on" *and* the "assist" buttons both work and boot the correct partition.</P><P></P><P>My attempts with AHTI 2012+ so far have worked for the "power on" button but it breaks the "assist" power on button which is unable to find the Sony Vaio Care recovery partition.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:29:23 GMT srmans2 2012-07-18T08:29:23Z Help replacing HDD with SSD drive https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/help-replacing-hdd-with-ssd-drive/m-p/344390#M21976 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I know this is probably outside the scope of support for a Vaio 2012 UEFI&nbsp; S Series laptop but any help and tips that can be provided on tools to use and procedures would be really helpful to me and perhaps the community.</P><P></P><P>My aim is to clone and replace my GPT format 640GB HD with a Crucial M4 256GB SSD with the goal of ensuring the "power on" *and* the "assist" buttons both work and boot the correct partition.</P><P></P><P>My attempts with AHTI 2012+ so far have worked for the "power on" button but it breaks the "assist" power on button which is unable to find the Sony Vaio Care recovery partition.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:29:23 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/help-replacing-hdd-with-ssd-drive/m-p/344390#M21976 srmans2 2012-07-18T08:29:23Z Re: Help replacing HDD with SSD drive https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/help-replacing-hdd-with-ssd-drive/m-p/344392#M21977 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Word of warning to anyone trying this:&nbsp; TRY TO MAKE A SET OF RECOVERY DISCS from your laptop's recovery partition in case the process should go wrong!</P><P></P><P>I found the UEFI boot mode in the BIOS and the Sony power on buttons on new 2012 laptops are very hard-wired and fragile wrt. hard disc changes.</P><P></P><P>Good luck!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:46:18 GMT https://community.sony.se/t5/pcs-accessories/help-replacing-hdd-with-ssd-drive/m-p/344392#M21977 srmans2 2012-07-19T08:46:18Z