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[ElfoMan]

I want to do a "System Restore" to my dad's laptop, to have everything like when he bought the computer.


I put the "System Restore" CD on the cd tray and go to the menu where you can choose what to boot first. I choose the Optical Disc to be booted first, and restart the computer. But it doesn't from the cd, it boots from the harddrive(going to WindowsXP).

I have tried several times and it has not booted from the the CD.

It a SonyVAIO laptop that was bought like 2 years ago.


Help me please,

 

[xsarien]

Go into the BIOS and change the boot sequence.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

It a SonyVAIO laptop

....And there is your problem!

 

[ElfoMan]

Already did that, and it didn't work.

I went to the Bios and had the CD boot first, then the Floppy, then the HDD, and then the Network.

I had tried various combinations and it still doesn't boot from the CD

 

[xsarien]

Well, either the computer's just screwy, or the CD's not bootable. Is there another disc that came with the system?

 

[ElfoMan]

It came with 5 cd's: #1,2,3 for "SystemRestore" and #1,2 "Aplications Recovery"

You are supposed to boot from SystemRestore #1 (like the intructions said), but it doesn't detect it, I tried the other cd's and nothing happened

 

[Phoenix]

Wouldn't be the first time that I've dealth with a system that didn't have bootable recovery CDs. Run across many Dell sets that weren't actually bootable.Find a friend with a Windows CD of some sort.

 

[alejob]

Don't you run system restore from windows? Like from all programs>accesories>system tools>System restore?

Maybe thats just to create restore points, I don't want to turn it on.

 

[ElfoMan]

Don't you run system restore from windows? Like from all programs>accesories>system tools>System restore?

Maybe thats just to create restore points, I don't want to turn it on.

It's different, the Windows feature you are talking about restores your computer like it was at a certain date.

The SystemRestore CD's, deletes everything, and installs everything again. Like if you had just bought the computer from the fabricant.


I have not gotten it to work on the VAIO, anyone knows some other method I can try? or other suggestions

 

[Particle Physicist]

It's different, the Windows feature you are talking about restores your computer like it was at a certain date.

The SystemRestore CD's, deletes everything, and installs everything again. Like if you had just bought the computer from the fabricant.


I have not gotten it to work on the VAIO, anyone knows some other method I can try? or other suggestions

maybe you can try to make a boot disk with DOS and CD-ROM drivers.. then try to see if you can run the disk.