topic Help! What have I done... in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/help-what-have-i-done/m-p/215601#M42914 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Hi all,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ4XWN-C I have had this for some 4 or 5 years and it has NEVER given me a moments problem. Recently I had to upgrade to a VPCEB3LOE for work but still wish to use the VGN as its so lightweight and easy to use.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I was advised to boot the machine from the Original Saved Disks so that I could get it back to Factory Shipment state. This I did and read some blub about Scan &amp; Erase so that it cleared all the drive out if I was selling it and this seemed the best way to go. However having done this with the first Disk of 2 that I made when I first got the Laptop, I now seem to have nothing on it at all! At the end of its process it asked me to click okay or similar and the PC Shutdown. Then when I tried to satrt it again all I get is The Black Screen with "Operating System not found" I have cahcked the Bios and it tells me that the HDD is Okay and still there but there is noting there to boot from? I still have my two rescue disks but these seem useless at this point. Do I need to get the Vista OS back on and if so how and where would I get it/them from?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Many thanks in advance. <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.lt/html/@2D569B49E3A9EE347943A69026A8F417/images/smilies/048.png" alt=":anguished:" title=":anguished:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:56:22 GMT candj23 2011-04-27T13:56:22Z Help! What have I done... https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/help-what-have-i-done/m-p/215601#M42914 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Hi all,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ4XWN-C I have had this for some 4 or 5 years and it has NEVER given me a moments problem. Recently I had to upgrade to a VPCEB3LOE for work but still wish to use the VGN as its so lightweight and easy to use.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">I was advised to boot the machine from the Original Saved Disks so that I could get it back to Factory Shipment state. This I did and read some blub about Scan &amp; Erase so that it cleared all the drive out if I was selling it and this seemed the best way to go. However having done this with the first Disk of 2 that I made when I first got the Laptop, I now seem to have nothing on it at all! At the end of its process it asked me to click okay or similar and the PC Shutdown. Then when I tried to satrt it again all I get is The Black Screen with "Operating System not found" I have cahcked the Bios and it tells me that the HDD is Okay and still there but there is noting there to boot from? I still have my two rescue disks but these seem useless at this point. Do I need to get the Vista OS back on and if so how and where would I get it/them from?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Many thanks in advance. <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.lt/html/@2D569B49E3A9EE347943A69026A8F417/images/smilies/048.png" alt=":anguished:" title=":anguished:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:56:22 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/help-what-have-i-done/m-p/215601#M42914 candj23 2011-04-27T13:56:22Z