topic Re: My New Vaio in PCs & Accessories

My New Vaio

KyriakosP — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:45:58 GMT

I bought my laptop 3 weeks ago, i have also the clicking disk sound (but i don't bother right now).. the problem with my vaio is the operating system...it's very unstable and i cannot install new software because i got the explorer.exe closing and restarting again.. only after a recovery the system behaves almost good...

The thing i'm trying to do is to install a new licenced OS probably MS Windows Pro because i'm running on Media but in the installation i got the message "No harddisk Found".. anyone bypass this and in what way?? i deleted all the partitions on the HD using Acronis and tryied that but no luck...

My system is a VGN-AR11B running on Windows Media Center...

This is my first post, we will have time to talk later on because now i'm heading to work.. Thanks for any replies..

Re: My New Vaio

KyriakosP — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:58:01 GMT

I bought my laptop 3 weeks ago, i have also the clicking disk sound (but i don't bother right now).. the problem with my vaio is the operating system...it's very unstable and i cannot install new software because i got the explorer.exe closing and restarting again.. only after a recovery the system behaves almost good...

The thing i'm trying to do is to install a new licenced OS probably MS Windows Pro because i'm running on Media but in the installation i got the message "No harddisk Found".. anyone bypass this and in what way?? i deleted all the partitions on the HD using Acronis and tryied that but no luck...


My system is a VGN-AR11B running on Windows Media Center...

This is my first post, we will have time to talk later on because now i'm heading to work.. Thanks for any replies..

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Re: My New Vaio

kee-lo_ — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:56:13 GMT

Give people time to reply, there's often a days wait.

I would contact Sony about the hard disk, might be damaged

Re: My New Vaio

KyriakosP — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:20:19 GMT

Give people time to reply, there's often a days wait.

I would contact Sony about the hard disk, might be damaged

The hard disk is not my major problem as i said before... i will give another 100-150euro to buy another one since i have the possibility to put another one SATA II... thanks for the reply

i have to say that while i was working on my laptop the keyboard died so i send it back to sony and hopefully tomorrow i will get it back.. i said sony that i have a problem wth the disk and they check it but there was no problem as i was informed...

the major question here is how can i change the OS with a clean format???

Re: My New Vaio

steve.mccall — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:34:30 GMT

Hi, I think I'm having the same problem. My laptop is to be used in a work environment it needs to be able to join a domain. Currently this is not possible with Windows MCE so I want to install Windows XP Professional sp2. Unfortunately during the text based section of the install, setup cannot detect the hard drive. I've tried using the SATA drivers provided with a usb floppy drive, they install fine but the HDD still cannot be detected. Is there any way around this problem? Also I cannot access the recovery console, I get a blue screen. Hopefullly someone can find the solution.

Steve

Re: My New Vaio

KyriakosP — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:57:40 GMT

i believe that with a new HDD will be fine but i don't have the money to go for one right now.... Even if the problem insists to be there i'm start thinking what will happen when Windows Vista will come out... i'm sure that the windows vista capable sticker is just there for marketing reasons

Re: My New Vaio

steve.mccall — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:06:05 GMT

Anyone find a solution? I've seen a couple of posts on another website about solving it with different SATA drivers but they didnt say where they got them from.

Steve

Re: My New Vaio

CrazyCow — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:07:43 GMT

If you're harddrive can't be detected after installing the drivers I'm convinced some drivers are either missing or not properly installed. If you write down exactly how you did I might be able to help you atleast one step ahead.

I recently posted a thread concerning this:
http://www.club-vaio.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=35215

// CrazyCow

Re: My New Vaio

frannys — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:25:23 GMT

Tip=Go to Fujitsu and download the HDD tools,most drive manufactures have Diagnostic software to download for drive maintenance.

Re: My New Vaio

CrazyCow — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:01:59 GMT

Don't understand the purpose of downloading that kind of software.

Re: My New Vaio

frannys — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:25:34 GMT

The Purpose is,so that you can do Maintenance on your Hard Drive.Most Drives will allow you to change certain parameters so it will be more efficiant with your other Hardware.You can also check for Drive failure,bad sectors,reset Boot Mbr,Format ect ect.ie=I have just built a new Desktop,and with Hitashi's software,I was able to upgrade both my Hard Drives from Sata 1 to Sata 2.Thats an increase in Bandwidth from 1.5g to 3g.I also enabled the Smart Disk Monitoring and adjusted the Accoustic volume levels and other things.

Re: My New Vaio

CrazyCow — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:29:56 GMT

Well my point was more "how can I solve this SATA problem" with that kind of software rather then "don't understand the purpose" (since I know what it's for).
Increasing bandwith etc it's not a priority before solving how to install another operative system.

Re: My New Vaio

Matricks — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:32:26 GMT

Well my point was more "how can I solve this SATA problem" with that kind of software rather then "don't understand the purpose" (since I know what it's for).
Increasing bandwith etc it's not a priority before solving how to install another operative system.

You're right. Let's say you make an install CD (XP Pro + RAID Drivers)....you install XP Pro and after that? The real problems begin to appear. Am I wrong?