I recently bought a new laptop (Sony VGN-SZ4XWN/C). There is nothing
wrong with it, so I'm not in any immediate need of a repair manual. But
is there anywhere I could find one on the web - I have tried looking,
but so far no luck.



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Your best bet is E-Bay. It probably will be cheap, but not free.
Typically you pay $5 to $15 (plus shipping) for a CD-ROM with a bunch of
service manuals on it. Do an E-Bay search for "Sony Service Manual"
(you will get a lot of non-laptop hits also). Unfortunately, these
usually don't have the manuals for the very newest models.


Dave (from the UK) wrote:

Barry Watzman wrote:
Thank you. I'm not sure when the Sony VGN-SZ4XWN/C was introduced, but I
doubt it is that old, so I may be out of luck for a while. But as I say,
there is no immediate need. I might at some point upgrade the 120 GB
hard drive, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I don't
suppose it will be rocket science to remove the old one and put a new
one in.


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Am Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:44:24 +0100 schrieb Dave (from the UK):

AFAIK only Dell and Lenovo offer such manuals on their website for
download. There is a new initiative aiming at collecting repair manuals and
guides for laptops:
<http://www.repair4laptop.org/>
Unfortunately your specific model is not yet listed there.

Andreas

Andreas Schulze-Bäing wrote:
Thank you.

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Uzytkownik "Dave (from the UK)"
<see-my-signature@southminster-branch-line.org.uk> napisal w wiadomosci
news:461d05b1@212.67.96.135...
Hi Dave,
if you only want to replace HDD you may find Sony VAIO VGN-SZ Hard Drive
Installation Guide helping.

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=43


Wojtek

On Apr 11, 12:22 pm, Andreas Schulze-Bäing <mib...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have Sony laptop manuals on my site at http://www.justmanuals.com .
Search by model number.

Paul@justmanuals.com

On 11 Apr 2007 14:42:13 -0700, "justmanuals" <paul@manuals4you.com>
wrote:

I see you charge $10.79 for downloading a Thinkpad manual that is
available for free download at IBM's website.

What is the point really? What service is it that you offer?



Lars
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Lars,
Could you sent me an email direct as jfenn@lava.net is valid.
I just wanted to get a direct msg to you without going thru
the newsgroup. Would appreciate it immensley if you could
do that. BTW I found that after getting the new short/cut
in, it offers winexplorer as a new world. It has a long
column on the left and you can see darned everything thats on
your HD includeing any partitions, files you did'nt even know
about, and its absolutely terrific. So please email me
direct.
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N610c wrote:
Thank you. I will download that. I will not be doing it just yet as the
120 GB disk is nowhere near full (yet) and the machine is only a few
weeks old. But I'm sure in the future, upgrading the disk will be one
thing I will do.

I'll keep an eye out for a manual.

I once scanned a manual on a piece of HP test equipment (a time interval
counter)

http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/time/HP-5370B/

It took me several days to do and the file was 566 MB! Agilent (who are
the test equipment branch of the old HP) have a downsampled version on
their web site which I sent them some time back. But it is NOT much fun
scanning a manual, but in the case of that one, there was only one
commercial source which was well over $100, and the manual was an older
copy than the one I manged to borrow.



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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:34:22 -1000, Joseph Fenn <jfenn@lava.net>
wrote:

Sure. I have just mailed you.

Lars
Stockholm