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05-27-2005, 12:40 AM
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help with restore disk please!
im sorry if this is the wrong forum but the best one for my case, (i believe). well i have a sony vaio laptop with Win XP pro and i just bought a system restore disk i bought from SONY.com and tried to use it, (model #PCG-F690k). everything went very smoothly and when it got to the screen where is deletes the /C and /D drive, (it said est. time 20-30 mins) it was at 60% and my battery went dead! well i try to restart it and it just flashes SONY and goes to a black screen. ive tried everything but just comes to a black screen every time.
 any help would be very appreciated
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05-27-2005, 07:56 AM
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If the bios is set to boot from the CD drive, you should be able to boot from the Restore Disk and start over.
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05-27-2005, 01:02 PM
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ive tried rebooting with the restore disk in the cd-drive and with it out. it still just flashes "SONY" like usual and then the screen goes black and in the top left corner of the screen it has a flashing space like this _
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05-27-2005, 01:07 PM
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Have you checked the bios to be sure the cd drive is set to boot before the hard drive? I guess it's possible that the Sony restore disks aren't bootable. I have no personal experience with them.
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05-27-2005, 01:12 PM
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Sony's restore disks are bootable, the latest ones I've dealt with are bootable DVD.
The problem might be due to the battery shuttin it down before it was allowed to finish the task. Recheck bios as Panama states. Attach the power cable to laptop and leave it on charge overnight, then try the restoration again. And leave it attached to the power adapter this time. |
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05-27-2005, 04:10 PM
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i know that it is set for the cd-drive to boot first and the recovery disk is bootable because it worked fine when i first tried it. i went though some prompt screens where it says yes/no if you want do completly erase your c and d drives. halfway through that the batt. goes dead now it wont load anything but the "SONY". and i tried multiple times just running it with the wall adapter and the batt. out and still the same. thanx for the replys
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05-28-2005, 03:52 PM
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If the laptop has a floppy drive and you can get it to boot from it, try this:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/ This will totally wipe the hard drive, then try booting with the CD again. |
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05-29-2005, 12:39 AM
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thanx it does have a floppy drive so ill try it now
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