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    Old Vaio!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by DrFeelwrong, Aug 13, 2007.

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    DrFeelwrong Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok I have here a really old Sony Vaio, from when ME was the top OS. The tage for it is pcg-954a, I got it from a friend who said that, it never worker for him after he got some virus on it. So I took out the hard drive as the drive would not reformat. But now I don't know what to do, I have an AC charger for it to keep it on, but I don't know the next step in restoring it. Any ideas?
     
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    DrFeelwrong Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any ideas? Anyone here even familiar with the model number?
     
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    Download Hiren BootCD, write it to CD. Put back the HDD inside the laptop, boot with Hiren BootCD & check for bad sectors with HDD Regenerator. After that you can try to format using partition programs in that CD.
     
    Wyshniukas, Aug 14, 2007
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