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Problems installing an OS on my laptop

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by nino8236 2 views

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I have a Sony VAIO laptop that I am having trouble with. The laptop stopped working and was told I had to wipe it clean and re-install the operating system.

I am not so good with computers. I used a Windows XP boot cd that will "freeze" during the drive formatting section and when it finally does make it past that, it will not finish copying the files. I have tried other OS like Linux, but that wouldn't work either, saying there was something wron with partition #5.

I have tried creating boot cds and using them on the laptop, but it will not read them, it actually only did once and has not read it again no matter how many times I try it. I am out of ideas on this and don't want to give up on it. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

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by oh smeg

Though by your description you are up against things with a Bad Optical Drive and no floppy available. Start off with the Ultimate Boot CD and test the Hardware specially the HDD and the Memory ideally the CPU as well

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

Just make sure that the Dicks that you make actually works in a different computer and if it doesn't work in this unit try a different type of Blank to use. It could be something as simple as the wrong Dye on the Blanks that you are using here and make sure that you use CD Blanks not DVDs.

Naturally if you can not make a Disc that is readable in this unit you are up against things and at the very least will require either a replacement Optical Drive or a M'Board if the replaced drive doesn't fix the problem of not being able to read recorded disc's.

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by patb071

When you say stopped working what was the laptop doing? You may have something more serious then a bad cd drive, like a bad hard drive.

by tmalo627

If you have more than one partition on the machine, more than one of them may be infected. Try deleting all partions and reformat the whole drive. Avoid the quick format. Note this may take about an hour just to format depending on the size of your drive.

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