Sony Vaio VGN X505VP

If so you may be able to connect and then access with a Domain Admin account.
Other than that you could slave the drive, take ownership, recover critical data, and then re-image.

The game's a'bogey!

Nae luck eh? ;)

http://tinyurl.com/6hw2fg

To me, his post was so brilliant that I cannot add anything useful.

Rick/Portland, OR

My old 2000 vintage Sony notebook came with a PCMCIA CD-ROM, and that was the only way I could reinstall the OS.

Eventually the card slot wiggled loose from the motherboard. My workaround was a large rubber band that maintained an angular force on the PC card. Not exactly high tech, but it worked.

Yes, by all means use the PCMCIA CD-ROM if you have one. The BIOS looks first to the PCMCIA slot for a boot command. I suspect you could configure a workaround using a PC card with a firewire adapter, and booting from a firewire CD-ROM:

http://tinyurl.com/6ma5yo

This is a Firewire/PCMCIA adapter at NewEgg.com, Mod #DLX-181, Item #NB2E16815203002, $55

I have tried booting directly from a firewire CD-ROM using the notebook firewire port, but as you have already learned, this doesn't work.

Rick/Portland, OR