Hi there,

Sadly last night my hard drive went to the big scrap heap in the sky. Basically when I boot up the laptop, it gets as far as the 'loading windows' screen and the system locks. The hard drive lights stays on permanently.

I have tried both windows and Vaio recovery options but both fail to recognise that the hard drive exists any more. All I can see when viewing devices is a C: drive with about 90mb capacity. When I try to access 😧 drive from the command prompt the hard drive light stays on and again the system locks up.

I know it is a 2.5" seagate momentus in there but can I replace it with any other 2.5" drive?