Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:26:04 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: VAIO PCG-505F notebook system restoration
From: carval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a Vaio 505F too, If, the Bios doesnt detect the HD, or you get no OS detect, most of the time it a bad Hard Drive.
Hmmm....
You can boot with a Windows OS disk if you have a Sony CD-ROM
It >does< have a Sony CD-ROM... I really don't think it has the DVD-ROM drive I've seen in specs on the net for the system. Does your Sony CD-ROM not need DOS specific drivers to be seen and boot a CD? and/or can it be seen when booted from a W98 boot floppy that enables CD-ROM support? I guess I'll find out... but it wouold be nice to be prepared.
(there is also another non-Sony CD-ROM that would also boot, But I dont remember the brand?)
Make sure you go into the Bios and make the CD-ROM the First booting Device.
Okay... how do you access BIOS?
If, you can only get the computer to see the CD-ROM, but not to boot? just copy the win98 cabs files to Hard Drive,
then run setup.
Yeah... if I can access the CD-ROM from DOS, either via a bootable CD or FD, I'll be set.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matthew Hanson wrote:
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:39:50 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT: VAIO PCG-505F notebook system restoration
Well... after checking around the net and not finding much, I'm back here at
the trusty Libretto suppot list to ask another off topic question.
A friend's Sony VAIO PCG-505F notebook all of a sudden went belly-up the
other night after a couple of hours of loading virus updates, and then
working fine for an hour or so. When booted up again, it gave that fatal
"No operating system found" DOS message. No C: when booting from FDD.
And
Partition Magic reporting no partition of any kind at all on the 4GB HDD! At least it saw the HDD, so I'm guessing it's okay.
Why that happened is a huge area of curiosity to me... but I'll skip to
asking if anyone knows how to go about reloading W98SE on this system. I've
downloaded the few drivers available on the Sony support pages, and am
wondering if I'm going to have to pull the HDD, and load the W98SE setup
files onto the drive via the desktop.
One of only 2-3 driver downloads was for the external DVD drive, so I'm
guessing that it's not going to boot from the drive, or recognize it at all
in DOS. Anyone know anything about that?
In a day or so I'l be going over there, and hopefully will have everything I
need to get the minimum going on the ailing puppy...
Thx,
Matt
