topic Re: can someone please help me! urgent! in PCs & Accessories

can someone please help me! urgent!

jhson114 — Fri, 20 May 2005 02:32:34 GMT

i have sony x505, and i need to reformat my harddrive. now, the laptop wont boot usb floppy drive or usb cd drive. what do i do?? is there a way to get the laptop to recognize the usb floppy at boot up so i can go into dos and do stuff from there on?

Re: can someone please help me! urgent!

seb21__ — Fri, 20 May 2005 06:43:43 GMT

You can configure that in the BIOS. Start your VAIO, if you can see the VAIO-Logo you must click F2. There you must set the USB drive as start device.

Re: can someone please help me! urgent!

Stephanius — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:21:55 GMT

i have sony x505, and i need to reformat my harddrive. now, the laptop wont boot usb floppy drive or usb cd drive. what do i do?? is there a way to get the laptop to recognize the usb floppy at boot up so i can go into dos and do stuff from there on?

You can boot from all Vaio branded external drives.
There is a i.link DVD-Burner bundled with the X505, so that should be no problem.

If for some reason you do not have the original Vaio DVD-Burner anymore, the cheapest way is to search for a used Vaio optical drive on ebay. All Vaio CD or DVD drives will do the job, no matter if its an old PCMCIA card based drive like the PCGA-CD5, -CD51, -CDRW52 or any of the newer i.link drives.

Re: can someone please help me! urgent!

kee-lo_ — Fri, 20 May 2005 19:23:28 GMT

Thanks for the info