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I have a sony vaio pcg-k35 laptop, its fairly old, maybe 5-6 years, my OS is windows xp, service pack 3.
Im trying to do a clean installation, vaio has a recovery wizard that offers a c drive recovery, however, when attempting to use this, my computer simplyrestarts and does nothing. Also, i've created recovery disk's using the application vaio gives you, i believe its called recovery media kit. Burned thedisk's, and my laptop doesn't read them, i know they work, because i've tried them in other pc's and its read, i don't know how or why mylaptop can burn the dvd disk and not read it... %+@?
I've attempted to install windows 7, 32bit, and it begins installation up to the restart point, upon doing so, it gets to the windows 7 screen again, andmy laptop just turns off. So i decided to remove the windows 7 start up using a dos command.
When attempting to use my xp disk it gives me an error stating it cannot install because the version im using currently is newer.
I downloaded new firmware for my Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K14L drive, and when trying to install it, it says "target not found" ...do i need to place thisfile in a certain folder?
All i want to do is a clean installation, should i use disk manager and format? if so, do i format both partitions? Is there something wrong with my cd/dvddrive? Why can't i use the recovery wizard? Am i doing something wrong when trying to install windows 7?
.....sorry for the series of questions, i need my laptop for work, and although i can use it, it doesnt function well, ..slow... lags while multitasking... allthe symptoms of a computer that needs reinstallation.
Thanks in advance NT.
Im trying to do a clean installation, vaio has a recovery wizard that offers a c drive recovery, however, when attempting to use this, my computer simplyrestarts and does nothing. Also, i've created recovery disk's using the application vaio gives you, i believe its called recovery media kit. Burned thedisk's, and my laptop doesn't read them, i know they work, because i've tried them in other pc's and its read, i don't know how or why mylaptop can burn the dvd disk and not read it... %+@?
I've attempted to install windows 7, 32bit, and it begins installation up to the restart point, upon doing so, it gets to the windows 7 screen again, andmy laptop just turns off. So i decided to remove the windows 7 start up using a dos command.
When attempting to use my xp disk it gives me an error stating it cannot install because the version im using currently is newer.
I downloaded new firmware for my Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K14L drive, and when trying to install it, it says "target not found" ...do i need to place thisfile in a certain folder?
All i want to do is a clean installation, should i use disk manager and format? if so, do i format both partitions? Is there something wrong with my cd/dvddrive? Why can't i use the recovery wizard? Am i doing something wrong when trying to install windows 7?
.....sorry for the series of questions, i need my laptop for work, and although i can use it, it doesnt function well, ..slow... lags while multitasking... allthe symptoms of a computer that needs reinstallation.
Thanks in advance NT.