Help Please

[oseyio]

Hi guys,

 

I have a Sony VAIO laptop which i have been trying to do a new OS installation as the current one is corrupt and i need to have it fixed. My DVDrom is faulty and it doesn’t read any discs so i tried to use an external rom to boot with and the laptop doesn’t see it! I’ve tried going through the bios settings to enable external boot to occur. I have enabled it so many times and each time i check i see that it is enabled and still i can’t boot from CD or from any other external source!!

 

I downloaded a new set of bios updates which are as follows

1. R0080J4

2. R0104J4

3. R0034J4

Even after applying these updates I still can’t boot from my external sources. I would appreciate any form of help anyone can render.

 

Thanks

[seedy21]

Does your laptop let you boot from a USB device. If so i would install the OS from your memory Stick.

 

 

Seedy21

[PseFrank]

Hi oseyio

 

One of our senior moderators has recently come across some free software that enables the user to install windows from a flash stick. This may be the way forward for you. Although you will need access to a computer with a dvd/cd drive that is working.

 

Install Windows from a flashstick

 

The software concerned is still in Beta (At the time of writing) but has been used by a staff member here with complete success.

I myself have earlier today used the software to load my own copy of Win 7 Pro onto what is now a bootable flashstick. This will enable me to reinstall Win 7 should I need to do so.