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Is there a way to replace a dead hard drive?

April 26, 2017dead replace

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Is there a way to replace a dead hard drive?

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Not that we are aware of. There are some people working on this now, but there hasn’t been any success yet. It appears that Sony implemented methods to prevent this from working (perhaps the drive’s serial number is encoded on the mainboard?).