Many thanks!
Dee

Hi, regarding the 2nd image shown above, I would like to replace my fan because it wasn’t spinning at all, and my CPU heats up really fast, was wondering if you know how to remove that back cover that is partially covering the fan?

I’m not sure, but I believe that in order to remove the cooling fan, you’ll have to disassemble the entire laptop. I think the fan is mounted on the motherboard, and the motherboard has to be removed.
Even though you can see the fan, it doesn’t mean that you can easily remove it.
On my last Sony laptop, I also could see the fan on the bottom, but it took me about 1.5 hours to replace it.
Here’s the picture: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/images/Sony-Vaio-VGN-SZ-series/take-apart-laptop-10.jpg

I have a sony vaio pcg-v505bcp the gov. removed the hard drive, and now I see i need a cable to attach a hard drive. Can you help me find a replacement cable that will work for this laptop?

Try calling sparepartswarehouse.com, they carry a lot of parts for Sony laptop. They can find the part number and order it for you directly from Sony.

A few years ago I successfully upgraded the hard drive in my Vaio PCG-V505EC to a 160Gig. I recently purchased a new 360gig and using Norton Ghost V9 managed to upgrade once again but the additional space is not recognized. I am guessing their might be a limit to how much the bios can address but can not confirm this. Any suggestions?

Any chance may have restored with Norton improperly? Everything works but I just don’t see the additional storage (even with partition magic).

Make sure you are running the latest BIOS. Update the BIOS if there is a newer version available on Sony site. It’s possible that they fixed this with the BIOS update.
After the update try using Partition Magic again.

By the way, can you see the unused space in Windows disc management utility? Maybe instead of increasing the primary partition you can create a second partition on the drive?

A few years ago I successfully upgraded the hard drive in my Vaio PCG-V505EC to a 160Gig. I recently purchased a new 360gig and using Norton Ghost V9 managed to upgrade once again but the additional space is not recognized. I am guessing their might be a limit to how much the bios can address but can not confirm this. Any suggestions?

Any chance may have restored with Norton improperly? Everything works but I just don’t see the additional storage (even with partition magic).

The Vail PCV-V505 series does not see ant thing above 137 GB. If you use any drive above that size you need to use a dynamic disk overlay. This should be available on the installation. disk that shipped with or is available for download from the manufacture of the hard drive you installed

I have a Sony PCG GR 414 SP the hard drive has failed I have recovery disc but says It cannot find Operating system when loading so I guess the hard drive has had It can u tell me an alternative Drive that I maybe able to replace It with and how I go about doing It

Did you try booting from the recovery disc? Did you go though the whole recovery process?