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| 1290536 | 2012-07-24 09:35:00 | Out Done Myself This Time I have a Sony E series laptop, and I have succeeded in wiping my hard drive including the back up drive (Duh!) I have restore discs but they are not booting up,they appear to be all there but it will not boot.I have installed Vista (Yuk!)on it in hope that I could then use the restore discs - still no joy.Currently loading a copy of Windows 7 (legit) to try and get my Sony back up to work.Does anyone no away around this problem.Any thoughts that me get me back to square one? Cheers |
ruup (1827) | ||
| 1290537 | 2012-07-24 09:52:00 | Well loading 7 is the 1st step. If the restore disks won't work from anywhere they are not going to help, all they will do it get you to where you are with Win7. I'd suggest Installing the win7 copy, downloading drivers + core apps you will use and put them on a disk (CD/DVD/USB or otherwise) for future use. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1290538 | 2012-07-24 22:49:00 | Your only real option is to reload the thing with fresh Windows 7 install. I assume you have access to another PC as you are posting this? Using your other machine to download the drivers will make things easier - then just pop em on a USB disk. When installing drivers, start with chipset drivers (then reset), then graphics, audio, w/lan, then move from there. As The Error Guy pointed out, keep your drivers etc. backed up. Don't download all the Sony software that is suggested on the Sony Support page (www.sony.co.nz) - just the drivers - it is amazing how much unnecessary 'bloatware' the Sony laptops can come with. Also remember, if you need to do data recovery you should leave the drive alone entirely - the more you use it the less chance of recovering your data. BTW, how did you manage to delete it all? If you deleted a recovery partition that the restore disks rely on then they will be of no use to you (as you seem to have found out). At least this way you will have a nice clean install without all the factory installed bollocks. After you finish installing drivers head to ninite.com, tick the boxes for the software you want (flash, adobe reader, firefox, etc.), and it will install it all for you without hassle and without the optional toolbars they all like to offer. Use Microsoft Security Essentials for antivirus. It's lightweight and does a good job. |
Bener (16838) | ||
| 1290539 | 2012-07-25 00:35:00 | Could you try recovering data from the wiped drive? | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1290540 | 2012-07-25 05:43:00 | Thanks everyone for your input.How did I manage to do this? Crass stupidity! | ruup (1827) | ||
| 1290541 | 2012-07-25 05:58:00 | The LAN / sound drivers should install on a clean install of Win7. All you need, are the chipset drivers. Then install the rest of the drivers. For whatever | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1290542 | 2012-07-25 07:54:00 | I ran into this when I tried installing a new HDD to my old HP desktop. It wouldn't read the discs for the first few tries, plus I put the wrong one in for the first one. Maybe check the discs in anotehr computer, see if the data's on em at all? otherwise yeah i'd say the others are right. |
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