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Can't boot from CD

well-medicated · 2008-07-22 22:43:09

XP professional sony vaio. Need to use recovery discs to repair. The laptop doesn't have an optical drive, but I've used a USB CD drive many times on it. I'm trying to get the lappy to recognise and boot from the recovery CD, but even though I changed the settings to boot from CD in the BIOS, the startup goes straight…

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well-medicated Posts: 185 Forumite

2 August 2008 at 11:46AM

Yes, thanks for that. I asked someone about that idea, and was told that the other lappy would need to be exactly the same as mine; same motherboard, etc. Don't know anyone with the same, and when I mentioned to the shop about that idea, they weren't keen at all - ok, now I know they're a bit on the thick side. Maybe I'll call another few repair shops.

Registered with Sony, so I'll wait now and see if they can help.

W-M

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