topic Re: Can¿t recover in PCs & Accessories

Can¿t recover

free76 — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:43:59 GMT

Hi
I have a Vaio z600LEK and I had my harddisk upgraded from 15 to 80GB
The problem is that a can¿t use the recovery discs and I hade to use another windows 2000 CD.
I tried going in the bios and load the default setting but it didn¿t work
Please, what can I do to make the recovery discs function?

Best regards
Free76

Re: Can¿t recover

tonybeard — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:15:08 GMT

In the bios you need to change the order of the drives that the system boots off. Change in your BIOS to boot off F drive and insert your Recovery disk.

Re: Can¿t recover

tonybeard — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:19:24 GMT

Welcome to Club Vaio. In the bios you need to change the order of the drives that the system boots off. Change in your BIOS to boot off F drive first and insert your Recovery disk. You will need to remove Windows 2000 also.

Re: Can¿t recover

free76 — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:39:45 GMT

Thanks for the reply.
The CD drive is first in the boot list, and I have also installed the original CD driver that I downloaded from the vaio homepage.
How can I remove win2000?

When I start boot up with the recovery disc. The pc displays the following:

Divice name = MSCD not installed.
No driver found, aborting installation

Re: Can¿t recover

tonybeard — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:52:08 GMT

Try Run/ F:startup and the options will ask if you wish to upgrade to XP home. If that doesn't work try F: Fdisk and do a complete recovery from F:drive Keep the XP number from the green sticker on the base and type it in when prompted. This is the main reason your OS system doesn't recognise the software bundle. It must match the shipping number on the base OS at least as an identifier. Good Luck. I would at this stage get partition pro also and divide your c: drive into 20gig and the d: drive as 60gig. Don't panic.

Re: Can¿t recover

free76 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:46:36 GMT

Try Run/ F:startup   and the options will ask if you wish to upgrade to XP home. If that doesn't work try F: Fdisk and do a complete recovery from F:drive.

I don¿t know how to do this could you be so nice to explain it for me.

I didn¿t want to upgrade to XP, I want win200 that is part of my recovery disc.
Also I don¿t have a F drive, I have a C (harddisk) and D(CDdrive)

Re: Can¿t recover

kee-lo_ — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:08:00 GMT

Go to bookdisk.com and download the bootdisk for Windows 2000