Sony VIAO help

[dclive]

Originally posted by: aceman817
dclive,

i have a similar problem with one of my laptops. it doesn't have a cdrom or floppy drive and i need to load xp on it. i took the hard drive out and put it in one of my desktop systems with an adapter. i formatted it fat32 in xp and then did sys c: from a boot disk to make it bootable. i then copied over the entire xp cd and ran winnt.exe from the laptop in DOS (winnt32.exe won't run under DOS). i got a message saying that the ramdrive wasn't present and then it said it was copying over files which is taking over an hour. the hard drive led is constantly flashing but the system seems like it is frozen. is that normal? is there a better way to do it? i have systems that don't have any means with which to interface. :|

Did you run Smartdrv? That will make it *massively* faster. Try that.

 

[Grunt03]

dude why not order the recovery cd from Sony, it would solve your driver problem.

 

[yokomo]

yea but no way to get them in with out a cd rom that it sees at boot

 

[dclive]

Yokomo - doing what the other poster did (plus smartdrv) will work - can you give that a shot?

 

[yokomo]

to all that helped me in here. I finally got it working... I traded it for a gateway 450rog and the other guy had 3 of the same unit so he did the recovery with the cd's and the proper CD rom drive... and all is good in lazy town..


Big thanks to everyone ....