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Sony Vaio laptop
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I would boot it into safe mode but nothing comes up thank you though for helping .
Did you make/receive a recovery disk?
What happens if you press and hold f8 while booting?You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride0 -
Did you create a set of 'restore disks' at any point since you bought it? Replacing a hard drive is quite inexpensive and doable....maybe £40-£50 and a bit of time...but that is for the techie guys if needed.0
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Turn the power off, and then press the "Assist" button. That should boot into a recovery area which you can use to reinstall the OS/run system restore, and should also allow you to test the hardware. If nothing comes up when you turn it on with the Assist button, then you may well have a hardware faultSquirrel!If I tell you who I work for, I'm not allowed to help you. If I don't say, then I can help you with questions and fixing products. Regardless, there's still no secret EU law.
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Sony Vaios have an assist button usually top right corner of the keyboard alongside a web button.
While the laptop is off press the assist button, it will boot into diagnostics where you can run a hard drive test, it also has the recovery partition/software and where you go to do a factory restore. Try the test first, if it passes run the restore.
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