VAIO OS Install Woes...

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something_totally_different

something_totally_different

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ok, so ive got to reinstall a vaio at work, ive got my xp disk and have all my drivers ready, i pop xp in, run the install, and it doesnt detect the hard drive. so i go and find the sata driver for the vaio and load it onto my flash drive, but wait... whats this... no usb support in XP installs, and no floppy on this model of laptop, what the $%&^ were these people thinking when they built this $%^&*&^ piece of $%^£ installer ?? i mean jesus, would it have been so hard for them to update it to accept sata and usb storage devices? they have been around for a bloody decade.:mad::mad::mad: If it was an old XP disk then i could understand but it was bought recently and is updated to feb 2007.


in the mean time if anyone has any way around this then i am all ears as i need to get this done,

cheers.
 
You need to slipstream the drivers onto the installation disk. You can do it manually or you can use a program like nLite to take care of it for you. :)

You'll be laughing in an hour. ;)
 
Sony supply a recovery CD/DVD.
On the ones where they don't the very first thing the laptop asks you to do after boot is create a set of disks.

These recovery disks reset the Vaio back to factory settings - why not simply use the correct tools for the job?
The Vaio is designed to be recovered from the supplied recovery disk set which it does relatively quickly and without any user interaction.
 
They don't include features like accessing USB devices during install because they didn't have to. You'd buy it regardless of whether or not they included such a feature. Why invest even a small amount in something that won't effect profits? They'd prefer to include such features in the next OS, Vista in this case, than updating or patching the old stuff.

Yes, nLite is easy to use.
 
stoofa said:
Sony supply a recovery CD/DVD.
On the ones where they don't the very first thing the laptop asks you to do after boot is create a set of disks.

These recovery disks reset the Vaio back to factory settings - why not simply use the correct tools for the job?
The Vaio is designed to be recovered from the supplied recovery disk set which it does relatively quickly and without any user interaction.
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using the correct tools for the job would mean using vista, unfortunatly as were a design firm most of our software doesnt run on vista, so XP is what we need.
 
have you checked for the presence of a recovery partition? to be honest, on my vaio's I'm real lazy and just use the recovery app if I ever wish to reformat, admittedly you end up spending just as long uninstalling crap as you do waiting for it to recover, but I've found making VAIO systems stable without all the VAIO gumph a real nightmare. They rarely use generic parts, nearly everything is customised either on a hardware level or on a firmware level.
 
Unfortunately the partition was deleted by one of the directors so were out of luck there, plus i have been unable to make a working XP disk using Nlite, if anyone can upload me a config script for nlite (obviously without your licence key) so i can use my own xp disk and make my own install, i would be most grateful. thanks.
 
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