Hi all,
Hope someone can help me with this.
I recently agreed to help a family member to reformat a Sony Vaio Notebook (model PCG-SR9G). its one of those tiny notebooks with a 10 inch screen..which means that it uses a external pcmcia card cd-rom drive.
I thought it was gonna be pretty straightforward except that the problem is I need to boot the computer from the recovery cd's but the computer does not recognise the cd-rom drive from dos. It only recognises the drive in a windows environment. (i have already enabled booting from cd-rom in the computer's bios settings)
Can somebody give me some suggestions on how i can boot from either a pcmcia cd-rom drive or a usb cd-rom drive. If not, perhaps some other way I can use the recovery disks to restore the system?
I did call sony customer service, but the only answer they could give me was to send the notebook to the service center and that it would take at least two weeks since there isn't a local service center where i live.
Thanks in advance,
angeliQue
Hope someone can help me with this.
I recently agreed to help a family member to reformat a Sony Vaio Notebook (model PCG-SR9G). its one of those tiny notebooks with a 10 inch screen..which means that it uses a external pcmcia card cd-rom drive.
I thought it was gonna be pretty straightforward except that the problem is I need to boot the computer from the recovery cd's but the computer does not recognise the cd-rom drive from dos. It only recognises the drive in a windows environment. (i have already enabled booting from cd-rom in the computer's bios settings)
Can somebody give me some suggestions on how i can boot from either a pcmcia cd-rom drive or a usb cd-rom drive. If not, perhaps some other way I can use the recovery disks to restore the system?
I did call sony customer service, but the only answer they could give me was to send the notebook to the service center and that it would take at least two weeks since there isn't a local service center where i live.
Thanks in advance,
angeliQue