I have a 505gx and used the recovery disk to reinstall win98. I cannot find the book that has the COA (certificate of authenticity) for win98, and the recovery...
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Does anyone know where to get hold of a pair of these speakers that clip onto the side of the screen for a PCG-505F? I am in the UK but would be willing to...
<< Z505S/SX and Z505R/RX Japanese Windows XP Bios in English. I use these in my 505SX, you R/RX guys are gonna have to try it I guess. >> I have installed...
I have just done an upgrade install of WinXP Pro over Win98SE on a US-model Z505SX from 1999. I added a RAM module, flashed to the Japanese XP BIOS, and...
... Well, reinstalling XP would be the best way. But since you ask... First, be sure you've loaded all BIOS defaults (using the menu option) and physically...
Hi everyone, My hard drive recently died on my sony vaio pcg-z505s. Through some of the links in this group I managed to crack open my laptop and replace the...
I think the problem is your booting the cd-rom from the hard drive, not from the floppy. in any case... Try fdisking the partion into 2 (partition magic makes...
You're almost there. You need to copy the Windows 2000 CD to a second partition on the hard drive in order to install to the first partition. Run Win98...
thanks for all the tips everyone. i've made progress, but have encountered more speed humps. i've formatted by 30gb hard disk using partition magic with fat32....
... I'm not quite sure - but - you can try this..... Boot again from your floppy disk, and be sure that "fdisk" os on it - or available... At the command...
In Dos, in order to make a partition bootable, you need to add something to the format command. You should be useing format c: /q /s The q makes it a quick...
I only have a CNF CDROM and have to do a restore on my 505TS anyone have any suggestions? (a new CDROM is not an option)Also anyone know where I can get the...
thanks everyone for their help, its much appreciated. i manage to get it to work, using fdisk. In fdisk you can set your primary partition to be "Active". For...
My speakers stopped working after I bumped my laptop - though sound worked fine through head phones. Yesterday I thought I'd open it and upgrade the memory to...
Sounds like the daughter card within the machine. It's the one at the front left, on top of the pcmcia socket. It attaches to the motherboard with ribbon...
I have looked around for other PC Card drives (non Sony), but can't really find any. What was the model number of the CD/RW drive for the Z505R? Have you...
Hi all I have one of the first PCG-505E which I have just pulled out of the bag after laying to rest for a few years. Took 5 minutes to recharge the batter to...
I was on the verge of buying a 505ex until a VAIO owner (who bought some years ago) told me she'd had lots of trouble with hard drive failure. I would...
I'm getting about 3hr with standard battery in Max Battery Life setting with LCD hi, wifi on. My machine is v505dx with Pentium M 1.4 512Mb 60GB. winston....
no need to continue using mister bill's DOS. try DR-DOS, sees not only NTFS but EXT2 partitions also. it's great for reformatting drives that have been used...
Actually, 2000 has far better recovery tools than DOS does. Plus its far less likely to mess up. I was afraid of it as well untill I learned how to repair it. ...
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:16:27 -0000, "dmwatmit" ... Your friend must have had one of the earliest 505s, like the 505F or G. There was a problem with the Toshiba...
Hey everyone! Just bought one of these puppies.I bought a PCG-Z505R, and it didn't come with a floppy drive. I know there's a special Vaio floppy drive (PCGA...
What happens when you set type Auto and hit return in the BIOS when selecting "Autotype Fixed Disk"? Some values should appear, if they don't the disk may be ...
I happen to be in the same boat. Virus wiped out my harddrive and I got no recovery CD. Did you have any luck getting a copy? Would love to dup a copy from you...
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 03:23:08 -0000, "GrahamWare" ... Apparently there aren't many drive makers so there's a good chance the company that made your drive made...
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