Have read many threads here, found several options, none have worked for me as yet. Me: Working PCMCIA Sony brand CD, both VAIO recovery CDs, Win98 floppy boot...
I guess that you have the same trouble with the OEM Win98SE disc that various others (including me) have reported on this list with Linux. For reasons best...
... found it ... Is that publicly available? I could not access it. The thread I referred to is at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sony505/message/19713...
Partial success, MANY thanks for suggestion: 98SE is booted. I copied the SE disk to the HD using the Sony PCG CD ROM. Deleted 98 from DOS and then ran setup...
Assuming you have a working floppy drive, I would suggest that you make a Windows Emergency Disk and try booting from that. It allows you to include use of the...
Of course it's me, but it doesn't seem to be working. I've copied the 2 recovery disks to the hard drive. When I put in the dos floppy that I made using...
Chris, I'm sure that is not you. It sounds like you are working with insufficient understanding of what I wanted you to try or a lack of knowledge about boot...
As I said before, I've copied the images of the 2 disks to the d: drive because I do not have a Sony CD rom available. I guess my problem is what must I do...
... You need to make a small partition on your drive. The CD copy on your drive cannot install over it itself. Then, on your floppy disk, you have to make...
Then I am thoroughly confused. My understanding was that you had a CD ROM drive that wasn't recognized. I have no more suggestions if there is no CD ROM...
My contribution to this "problem" is complete. I have nothing useful to contribute. It seems what I read in an earlier message is not the case. A direct quote...
... There IS a CD ROM but it is not being recognized. He copied his CDs to his hard drive, using the DOS disk and RAWRITE. He is trying to follow the...
Of there is a CD ROM available then the original writer shouldn't have said there is no CD ROM available. I think I've had enough of using a significant amount...
Wow, don't think I deserve that. I don't have a CD Rom that connects with the PCMCIA (?) connector. I have to connect through the network. Therefore I have...
... make a Windows Emergency Disk and try booting from that. It allows you to include use of the CD drive in the startup sequence. If you are lucky it will...
Hi group, Having a few free time I unscrewed my PCGA-CD51 and I have noticed that it uses a typical IDE/ATAPI CD reader. So I think that it is a good idea to...
I tried this with a DVD-Writer. The interface to the pcmcia-bus is just 16bit so the transfer speed is to slow to write a DVD. You just get buffer underrruns....
Probabely you must be knowing that Sony laptops do not work with every other cd-devices, the reason being a checking system incorporated into the bios which...
Ohh...it is working ! Great....thanks ... just 16bit so the transfer speed is to slow to write a DVD. You just get buffer underrruns. get a firewire-housing an...
Please tell me where to buy (online or elsewhere) accesories for my 505 - like a CD-ROM, some thing that allows me to access to the internet other than dial ...
... There have been a lot of different models of the 505 over the years. To answer your question we need to know which one you have. It could be fairly new and...
Hi, I have a late model VAIO, bought in Febuary. It runs XP. Everything works reasobably well, but every 10P.M., the disk tray pops out. I don't want dust...
I found and old post where you were offering recovery cd's for the PCG-505tx. I just got one and need to reload the OS. Are they still available. James...
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