Help with Sony Laptop

jackit

Our Sony Vaio was grinding to a halt and we decided to get rid of all the rubbish on it and do a recovery to only preintalled software and start afresh. I tried 6 times to create the recovery disks (system & application) from the software on the laptop and failed several times at exactly the same point. I contacted Sony and they sent me the disks.

On Friday night I used the disks and all appeared to go well - until the laptop was restarted on Saturday when I had to do it all again. Then the same thing happened last night.

I'm guessing that something somewhere on the hard drive is corrupt. Is it possible to reformat the hard drive in some way and start afresh using these disks. Also I dont have the original operating system - software wasnt supplied with laptop. The licence for XP Pro is attached to the botton of the machine. My friend has XP Pro service pack 2 - would i be able to use their software to reinstall?

Please help - we are lost at home without the laptop?

Thanks.

studiorex

Not an expert on Sony laptops, but most PCs these days come with the operating system on a hidden partition on your hard drive, these are then accessed by the discs and everythings sorted. However, for whatever reason this isn't happening in your case and it certainly is a puzzle - I'm being a big help here I know!

The good news is that you will be able to use any winXP discs to re-install the OS. When going down this route make sure you do a complete format which should fix any problem areas on your hard drive.

Good luck.