VGN-A317M HARDDRIVE REPLACEMENT - HELP NEEDED

[DVDKEV]

I am replacing a dead harddrive in my VGN-A317M laptop with a brand new Hitachi SATA HDD with no Vaio drivers/utilities installed.

I dont have any recovery discs and wondered if these can be obtained from Sony? If so how?

If I cant get recovery discs, is it OK to just download the original driver/utility packs from the Sony site on another PC and burn these onto a DVD to be used as a recovery disc for the laptop, i.e. would they work just the same as the original recovery discs, do I put drivers on one disc and utilities on another or both on one disc?

I have an XP Pro disc. Do I install the drivers/utilities first then XP Pro or is it the other way round?

Thanks

[moby_toby]

Hi

I did a replacement om my vgna397xp ; I replaced the 80G fujitsu drive with two(!) drives, first I tried the Hitachi 7200 rpm 100 GB drive. I found it to noisy (and resonance) and my notebook was hotter than before.
Then I tried the fujitsu 120 GB 5400 rpm drive because and it is very quiet and cool. Performance is little less fast as the hitachi, but fast enough.

happy 2007

[simrana]

Thank you!