I need help FAST. My computer won't turn on and it's thanks to Windows XP SP2

Started by Jedi Priestess3 pages
Jedi Priestess yeah baby

Unless you are me and didnt get an actual XP CD with your computer. 😖

Raz Meister

Then you need to borrow one from a friend 😉

Shadow_King -

what is sp2

yerssot Senior Member

Service Pack 2

Jedi Priestess yeah baby

Its crap Shadow dont get it

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

Originally posted by Raz
Are you sure it will reformat, as I've used OEM discs in the past and they are identical to retails discs.

Boot the OEM disc, then select your current WinXP directory when installing. You should get an option saying whether you want to repair the installation.

It says "Welcome to the Sony VAIO System Recovery Program
In order to recover, your C drive will be formatted. Do you want your C drive formatted? Or your C and D drives?" basically. There's no recovery consule like I've seen screens of on the internet... nothing like that. Either wipe the drive, or don't use the CDs basically. Crappy Sony... anyway I got one from my friend and I followed Microsoft's removal instructions and they didn't work... I tried the Master Boot Record recovery and that didn't even work either... 😬

Tex Yumsz

Tragic!

*faints*

Shadow_King -

but whats it suppose to be doing.

TOH Dude, where is my car?

Originally posted by JKozzy
It says "Welcome to the Sony VAIO System Recovery Program
In order to recover, your C drive will be formatted. Do you want your C drive formatted? Or your C and D drives?" basically. There's no recovery consule like I've seen screens of on the internet... nothing like that. Either wipe the drive, or don't use the CDs basically. Crappy Sony... anyway I got one from my friend and I followed Microsoft's removal instructions and they didn't work... I tried the Master Boot Record recovery and that didn't even work either... 😬

What? 😑 What the hell VAIO has to do with XP CD??? 😐
That message is really weird..... 😖

Have you tried:

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:
bootcfg /rebuild
?

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

Originally posted by TOH
What? 😑 What the hell VAIO has to do with XP CD??? 😐
That message is really weird..... 😖

Have you tried:

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:
bootcfg /rebuild
?

It's the VAIO Recovery CD. It wipes the HD and reinstalls XP on the blank drive. I also tried those on the Recovery Consule on the CD I'm borrowing, and they all failed miserably. 😬

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

Sorry, double post.

Fire Senior Member

hmm Kozzy can you get a second harddrive from someone?

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

Yeah, I think so, but what could I do with that? I can't boot two master disks on the same computer, and if I changed one of them to a slave, I'm afraid it'd wipe it if I tried to install, but yeah I could get another.. what could I do, Fire?

Fire Senior Member

change the one you already had to slave boot from the new one with a new windows, that way you can access your old one and get your files 🙂

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

Are you sure that it'll recognize the slave drive at all? I've always thought that couldn't work 😬

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

"The disk in drive G is not formatted. Do you wish to format now?"
😬 cry

Fire Senior Member

no Kozzy I aint sure but that has worked for me in the past when I had an almost similar problem

TOH Dude, where is my car?

Originally posted by Fire
change the one you already had to slave boot from the new one with a new windows, that way you can access your old one and get your files 🙂

Take a look at the jumpers in the hd... your HD must be slave and the other one master.

JKozzy Agent Kozzy

I know, but it asks me if I want to format it, which I don't want to do cry

yerssot Senior Member

I think it would be a LOT easier if you just formatted it... if you get into trouble for it, just say it was a nasty virus 😉