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Hi folks,
I've been given a sony laptop to fix, it basically needs a reformat/ reinstall. It has the sony recovery cds with it but the problem is that you cannot boot from cd - the bios doesn't seem to recognise the cd drive, but it works in windows fine. the software on the cd says to boot from cd to recover, yet this seems impossible.
I have tried my windows cd as well but again - the same problem it will not boot from cd.
please help me. any ideas/suggestions?
in the bios i have the h.d.d. set to lowest boot order and the "optical drive" to 1st boot device. The laptop has no floppy driver so i cant boot from a dos disk.
arrghhh!!!
I've been given a sony laptop to fix, it basically needs a reformat/ reinstall. It has the sony recovery cds with it but the problem is that you cannot boot from cd - the bios doesn't seem to recognise the cd drive, but it works in windows fine. the software on the cd says to boot from cd to recover, yet this seems impossible.
I have tried my windows cd as well but again - the same problem it will not boot from cd.
please help me. any ideas/suggestions?
in the bios i have the h.d.d. set to lowest boot order and the "optical drive" to 1st boot device. The laptop has no floppy driver so i cant boot from a dos disk.
arrghhh!!!