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    installing Windows XP on old Sony Vaio

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by ravrav, Apr 19, 2007.

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    ravrav Newbie

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    my girlfriend has an old sony vaio PCG-Z505RX (Pentium 2). there is no on-board CD drive or floppy, and she lost the external components. The BIOS has no obvious way of booting off of a flash drive. And she forgot her password (it was running Windows 2000).

    She also eventually wanted to run Windows XP on the laptop, so I thought, why not just reformat the hard drive with Windows XP (there was nothing on it she wanted to save). I disassembled the computer (thanks to posts on the web), removed the hard drive, and hooked it up to my Toshiba Satellite A45-S151 (Pentium 4), so I could boot off of the Windows XP installation CD. I ran it and installed it, no problem. But when I switch the hard drive back, no luck. The boot sequence hangs immediately after the BIOS screen (just blinking cursor, no error message or anything).

    I had initially tried NTFS file system, thought it might be that, and am now reinstalling Windows XP (back on the toshiba) with FAT32. But after doing a little bit of research, I am beginning to think that it's not that...

    any thoughts?
     
    ravrav, Apr 19, 2007
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    ravrav Newbie

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    ok, now that i've installed fat32 windows xp, i get the following error message:

    "NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart."

    thoughts?
     
    ravrav, Apr 19, 2007
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