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    Vaio Z1 Not booting in a strange way!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Eienkei, Aug 12, 2011.

  1. Eienkei

    Eienkei Notebook Guru

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    I have a Z135GG which I have bought recently, today I wanted to change the partitions size so I used Paragon Partition Manager 10, as soon as it restarted the computer, it just goes to a blank black page with a curser & nothing else!
    I tried to boot with paragon partition recovery disk but again, it just won't go past that curser...

    What can I do? Any ideas?
     
    Eienkei, Aug 12, 2011
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    ComputerCowboy Sony Fanboy

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    anytimer Notebook Virtuoso

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    You probably screwed up the boot partition. If that Paragon CD is bootable, make sure the CD drive is set as the first option in boot devices in the BIOS (press F2 while booting). Now it will boot from the CD and you can check that the C partition (which contains your OS) is set as primary, and active.

    Or, if you have Hiren's boot CD, use EasyBCD to fix the boot sector.
     
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    EasyBCD couldn't fix it! Gotta buy an external DVD-Rom today to do the restoration...!
     
    Eienkei, Aug 13, 2011
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