AtTouchpad problem on my VAIO laptop

Hi!

I have a problem with my touchpad on my VAIO F13 laptop. I can't get it to work (tried almost everything). So I decided to low-format my HDD with diskpart's clean all command - and I did. When I then rebooted the laptop with the Windows 7 DVD in the optical drive and the DVD loaded - at the first screen, when the mouse/touchpade pointer shows itself the touchpad was working for about two seconds (I was able to move the pointer!). But then it stopped again. It's like something (really don't know what because the whole HDD is low-formatted using Diskpart's Clean all command) disabled the touchpad after the two seconds. Maybe this could be a hind: when I firsto got my brand new VAIO I disabled the touchpad after a few days and then later one quick-formated the HDD when installing an other version of Windows 7 x64 (not the preinstalled one). I tought that maybe it's possible that the "disabled touchpad setting" got saved on some hidden place (hidden partition?) so I low-formated it now to get to the bottom of this mystery. But it's still not working. At least I know that it's not a hardware problem. Does anyone know what could it be and how could I re-enable it again?

Thank you!

 

uhh... what did you "try"? Also, usually when one finds their touchpad doesn't work, they reinstall the touchpad drivers. In any case, in your taskbar, do you see the touchpad icon? Open it up, go to Device Settings tab, then make sure your Synaptics TouchPad is enabled. Then click on the button that says "Animated tray icon in taskbar". (this is the same as Control Panel >> Mouse). Now you should see the touchpad icon in the taskbar and touch it and see if you see any depression in there... There was some program to check if your touchpad worked... i forgot where though.

edit: the thing i was talking about is, right click the icon under accessories choose MoodPad, then use the pad. see if it is actually tracking anything. If not, time to call Sony to replace the touchpad

 

What you still haven't done. What I have recommended you do in one of the other threads...

Do a PROPER system install from your Sony Recovery Discs to bring everything back to original factory settings. If the touchpad does not work in that environment, then you have a real issue going on.

Do you even have recovery discs?

 

I don't have the recovery discs (nor any other VAIO disc) and the recovery partition is gone. The touchpad as a hardware unit works, I'm 100% sure of that. It's like something tells it to stop working after 2 seconds into the Windows 7 installation.

 

I guess that the only thing I can do is to install Windows 7 without tht touchpad working and try to enable it alter on - but I don't know how - or with what.

 

When I created two partitions and formated them (C:\ for Windows and D:\ for storege of misc files) a third partition has been made, 86 MB in size - it said it's a system partition or something like that. Is it possible that this is a recovery partition which isn't gone after all?

 

No, that's the normal Window's system partition. Have you tried installing/reinstalling the Synaptic drivers?

 

No, the recovery partition is at least 1.5GB (if no bloatware), but is usually over 8GB.

If you're going to install the OS again, follow these steps from Sony in regard to the order in which you install drivers. Sony is very particular about this kind of thing.

Sony eSupport - Electronics - Support Information

 

Thanx guys, I managed to fix the problem! I just installed the VAIO drivers in the right order and the touchpad was enabled again! I will post my installation process in the Owners Lounge soon (probably tomorrow).