Re: Viao hard drive buys the farm..
Hard drives crash all the time. The fact that it is a Sony Viao has nothing to do with it. They use one of a number of brands of hard drive just like all the other manufacturers do. These parts are no different that any other thing in life. Most of them run forever, some crash and burn after a few years, and a few of them fail within the first few months. If it is the first one he has seen fail, he must not have been repairing computers for very long. Just make sure you always keep a backup of your important stuff at all times.