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    Sony Vaio PCG-K15 boot problems

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Cheekz185, Aug 24, 2008.

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    I received a sony vaio PCG-k15. The laptop would not boot. So I initially used the built in sony vaio recovery utility to format and repair the c drive. I did so by pressing f10 when booting. The laptop has the partition where it restore utility it automatically built into in.

    After restoring, the laptop ran really really slow and was very unresponsive. So i decided to format the local disk c partition with my own windows CD and take it from there. But it was the same thing SLOW. So i restarted and tried to boot into F10 (Restore mode) but all i got was an audible tone and it did nothing when I pressed F10. I did not touch the restore partition, just the partition that had windows on it.

    After all that, the harddrive died on me. So now I am going to replace the harddrive. But is there anyway I can migrate the restore partition to the new drive and be able to utilize F10 again? If so how would I do that? I have already coped the restore partition to my own PC.
     
    Cheekz185, Aug 24, 2008
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