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    Sony Viao VGN-FS850 won't boot to windows?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by mikehende, Jan 18, 2013.

  1. mikehende

    mikehende Notebook Consultant

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    I installed win7 om this laptop then the owner himself loaded win8 upgrade from Microsoft, now the unit doesn't boot to windows, after the power logo, it simply hangs with a blinking cursor. In the BIOS I am seeing in this order:

    Optical Drive
    Floppy Disk drive
    Network
    +Hard disk drive

    as the options, first I don't know why the Hard disk drive option is showing that + sign? I also don't see an option to move the HDD up to first position? So I highlight it and choose F10 to save and exit. I also tried putting in a Win 7 OS dvd to see if it will boot off the optical drive but it doesn't. I tried booting the win7 OS DVD off of an External USB Drive, no luck, help?
     
    mikehende, Jan 18, 2013
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  2. sangemaru

    sangemaru Notebook Deity

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    Do you have a key to select your boot device at bootup? This seems like either a bootloader error or a mismanagement of loading devices.
    What HDD controller mode do you have selected in BIOS? (IDE, SATA, RAID, etc.).
    The + sign before the hard drive option should signify multiple harddrives. If you press enter on that option doesn't it load a list of HDD ports?

    I'm not sure what else to suggest atm.
     
    sangemaru, Jan 18, 2013
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    mikehende Notebook Consultant

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    I am not aware of any "key" to select boot device on this unit?
    I am not aware of any HDD controller mode?
    Pressing on the + sign shows "Toshiba MK1031GAS-[PM]
     
    mikehende, Jan 18, 2013
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