Oh jeez oh god oh god oh jeez
I'm trying to fix my sister's Sony Vaio and boy did I fuck up. She got a virus from Facebook and whenever you booted it'd BSOD, so I just went the easy route and was going to do a fresh install. I've got Windows 7 onto a bootable USB drive and all that jazz, but of course, a problem. "Boot from USB" isn't an option in the BIOS. There's "External Device" which I sure as hell assume is a flash drive. And there's not a boot menu either, you [i]have[/i] to go into the BIOS.
So this shit wasn't booting, etc. So I went to Vaio Recovery Tools (alt + f10) and chose "Restore to factory defaults" and it went ahead and tried that. It got to 2% then gave me Error 333. Now, booting gives me "No operating system". Fuck me.
I cannot for the life of me get this thing to boot from USB. I can't burn Windows 7 to a disc because I don't have any discs or a computer with a working disc drive. Facepunc help me :f5:
One of the boot options is "Network boot" but I have no fucking clue what that is.
[QUOTE=ifaux;30161206]Oh jeez oh god oh god oh jeez
I'm trying to fix my sister's Sony Vaio and boy did I fuck up. She got a virus from Facebook and whenever you booted it'd BSOD, so I just went the easy route and was going to do a fresh install. I've got Windows 7 onto a bootable USB drive and all that jazz, but of course, a problem. "Boot from USB" isn't an option in the BIOS. There's "External Device" which I sure as hell assume is a flash drive. And there's not a boot menu either, you [i]have[/i] to go into the BIOS.
So this shit wasn't booting, etc. So I went to Vaio Recovery Tools (alt + f10) and chose "Restore to factory defaults" and it went ahead and tried that. It got to 2% then gave me Error 333. Now, booting gives me "No operating system". Fuck me.
I cannot for the life of me get this thing to boot from USB. I can't burn Windows 7 to a disc because I don't have any discs or a computer with a working disc drive. Facepunc help me :f5:
One of the boot options is "Network boot" but I have no fucking clue what that is.[/QUOTE]
Network boot or PXE boot requires a server to push the image down. How can you make this possible? EASY!
1] Make a VM of the Sony Vaio if you can, and make your image using Norton Ghost
2] Boot up the Sony Vaio, and do a network boot.
If the network boot gives you a command prompt:
Connect to your computer like a normal windows share IE: \\MyComputer\GhostImages$, if it doesnt; I don't know what to tell you. Set up a Go Server.
Using the cmd:
1] Net use N: \\MyComputer\GhostImages$
2] Navigate to the folder with Norton Ghost on it, IE: cd capture\applications
3] Run norton ghost (or your favorite image capture app). Type ghost32.exe , then hit enter
4] In Norton Ghost, navigate through the windows to apply the image. Follow what seems right, and find your ghost image then apply.
Otherwise, your BIOS might not be able to support USB booting. SO finding an external combo drive and a DVD will be critical. You can alternatively use floppies. But be prepared to use around 2000floppies.
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Also, make sure you have sharing enabled on that computer, and remember the computer name which has the image. And remember, use a ETHERNET cable for net boots.
Give me boxes. USB drive was UDF rather than FAT.
I don't know if it'll work still though.
[QUOTE=ifaux;30161585]Give me boxes. USB drive was UDF rather than FAT.
I don't know if it'll work still though.[/QUOTE]
Are you using YUMI or something of the like?
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You can alternatively use these commands:
Formatting the Flash Drive: Done through Elevated Command Prompt
[code]
diskpart
list disk [Find your thumb drive]
sel disk # [# = your drive number]
clean
cre par pri
format fs=ntfs QUICK
active
assign
exit
[/code]
Now the thumb drive has been formatted over to NTFS, change to format fs=fat to make a fat32 volume.
Copying over the files: Through elevated command prompt
[code]
Definitions:
D:\ == Drive with the ISO mounted in it
E:\ == Thumb drive
Command Lines:
bootsect E: /nt60
xcopy D: /cherky E:
[/code]
I'm on OS X.
I used sudo dd to copy and make it bootable and all that jazz. It's FAT32 with Windows 7 on it. Now when I boot from USB, I just get an underscore. Should I format to NTFS? Probably, actually, because Windows 7 is 4.63gb..oh god what do I do
:saddowns:
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What the fuck is this.
I formatted it as FAT. SUDDENLY UNIVERSAL DISK FORMAT.
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i need help :saddowns: this worked fine before i dont know why it's not working now oh god why didn't this automerge i didn't mean to bump
Format it as NTFS, or run a VM on your machine with XP on it so you can do diskpart.
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Make that 7. XP can't make NTFS volumes on flash drives
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;30165947]Format it as NTFS, or run a VM on your machine with XP on it so you can do diskpart.
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Make that 7. XP can't make NTFS volumes on flash drives[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna do that after I try formatting it as NTFS with NTFS-3G. Well, actually, if I'm gonna run a VM why don't I just use Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD maker thing?
[QUOTE=ifaux;30166272]I'm gonna do that after I try formatting it as NTFS with NTFS-3G. Well, actually, if I'm gonna run a VM why don't I just use Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD maker thing?[/QUOTE]
I didn't know they had something that useful! whoa microsoft...
But yeah, that'll work or use YUMI.
I don't even know what YUMI is but okay. I formatted to NTFS thanks to handy dandy NTFS-3G; gonna try sudo dd one more time.
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