Author Topic: Laptop wont start!! (Read 5101 times)

tanya80 · « **on:** May 31, 2012, 01:44:07 AM »

Hi,

I have a Sony Vaio with Windows Vista...the laptop is refusing to start! It goes into Start Up Repair every time I turn it on and then says Start up repair cannot repair this computer. I have even tried Safe mode with networking but same problem...please help!

Thanks!
Tanya

tanya80 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2012, 02:09:23 PM »

Hi,

Just an update -

One of the errors returned by start up repair is : OS not found

Please do reply and let me know how to proceed!

Thanks!

[quote name='tanya80' timestamp='1338446647' post='481161']
Hi,

I have a Sony Vaio with Windows Vista...the laptop is refusing to start! It goes into Start Up Repair every time I turn it on and then says Start up repair cannot repair this computer. I have even tried Safe mode with networking but same problem...please help!

Thanks!
Tanya
[/quote]

tanya80 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2012, 01:51:00 PM »

Hi Guestsolo! Please help! I've tried a few things but its still not working...please reply!

guestolo · « **Reply #3 on:** June 02, 2012, 07:08:04 PM »

sorry Tanya, I'm working out of town and really busy.
But can you follow the steps I supplied here to save any documents, pics, etc... to a USB thumbdrive or external device of some sort, Then we can go from there
http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=79228&st=0&p=449077&hl=knoppix&fromsearch=1&#entry449077

Post #17, don't use the link to burnatonce, use your owning burning software to burn an IMAGE file

tanya80 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2012, 03:33:32 AM »

Thank you so much for replying! I will try this and let you know how it goes...

tanya80 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2012, 02:07:16 AM »

Hi,

So I tried running with the CD but nothing...it tries to read the CD and then goes back into Startup Repair...I am not sure if I did this the right way though..the file which downloaded was a .rar file and then I burned that as is using Sonic..not sure if I was supposed to extract the files and then burn? Please let me know what to do next.

Thanks!

guestolo · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2012, 06:44:25 AM »

go to this direct link
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/knoppix/

download and save to desktop
File:ADRIANE-KNOPPIX_V6.7.0CD-2011-08-01-EN.iso

Then burn that as an IMAGE file, not as data

tanya80 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 05, 2012, 01:08:53 AM »

Hi,

I downloaded from the link provided and burnt it as an image...still nothing...upon start uo I get a black screen with the cursor blinking and I can hear the CD is being read...after about 10 minutes it says Windows failed to start and goes back into startup repair. Following are the errors I receive from startup repair:

Problem Signature:

Problem event name: StartupRepairV2

Problem Signature 01: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6001.18000
Problem Signature 03: 0
Problem Signature 04: 65537
Problem Signature 05: unknown
Problem Signature 06: NoOSinstalled
Problem Signature 07: 0
Problem Signature 08: 1
Problem Signature 09: FixPartitionTable
Problem Signature 10: 1168
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Please let me know what to do next.

Thanks!
Tanya

tanya80 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 10, 2012, 01:47:24 PM »

Hi guestsolo...please reply and let me know what to do next...thanks!

guestolo · « **Reply #9 on:** June 22, 2012, 09:51:32 AM »

did you get this fixed up?
Do you still need a hand?

tanya80 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2012, 01:17:15 PM »

Hi!

Yes I really need help...no progress yet

http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'

\' /> still the same situation...let me know what to do!

Thanks!
Tanya

guestolo · « **Reply #11 on:** June 26, 2012, 02:41:41 PM »

I know you have a Sony Vaio. Can you give me the exact model please
anything you need to save on this computer? Or can you just clean install?

tanya80 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 27, 2012, 12:56:39 PM »

Hi,

Its a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ35G There are some video/jpeg/word files which I would like to save if possible.

Thanks!
Tanya

guestolo · « **Reply #13 on:** June 28, 2012, 02:37:10 PM »

I assume you can't get into safe mode? correct
Can you enter the BIOS (Setup)
Is the harddrive detected? if not, can you reset BIOS to defaults.. Save it, is harddrive detected?

tanya80 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 28, 2012, 05:38:15 PM »

Hi,

No i cannot go into safe mode either...when I enter BIOS it does say Hard Disk Drive: 200 GB, is that it? There are also values against BIOS Version, Machine Name, Serial Number and UUID. System Memory shows as 2048 MB.

Thanks.
Tanya

tanya80 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2012, 05:39:24 PM »

I did select setup defaults in BIOS and when I saved and rebooted...same values and data, there was no change in any of the fields in BIOS

guestolo · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2012, 06:42:52 PM »

Let's try accessing the Sony Vaio recovery center
When starting the computer, use the [color="#0000FF"]F10[/color] key to enter Sony Vaio recovery center. Or any other key displayed onscreen
If you have success entering recovery center.. What options are supplied to you?

tanya80 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 29, 2012, 04:14:34 AM »

Hi,

Here are the options in the recovery center:

1. Windows System Restore - I have tried to use this earlier and it keeps saying no restore points have been created on your computer's system disk.

2. Vaio Hardware Diagnostics

3. Restore C: Drive

4. Rescue Data

Let me know what should I do next.

Thanks,
Tanya

[quote name='guestolo' timestamp='1340926972' post='481220']
Let's try accessing the Sony Vaio recovery center
When starting the computer, use the [color="#0000FF"]F10[/color] key to enter Sony Vaio recovery center. Or any other key displayed onscreen
If you have success entering recovery center.. What options are supplied to you?
[/quote]

guestolo · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2012, 08:00:16 AM »

Ensure to keep your power cord plugged in during these processes..
You should backup any files/folders you may want to keep
Plug in and External harddrive, thumbdrive, etc...
Then choose the option to "Rescue Data"

You are going to have the choose to either
Easy Backup
- This option automatically saves all files which can be rescued on the hard disk to an external hard disk.
File Selected
- This option saves the files that you specify to an external hard disk drive, a removable media, or an optical disc(DVD, etc.).

After you have saved what you need. Disconnect any peripheals.. Such as external drives, etc..
I would go ahead and choose to "Restore C: Drive"
This should get you back to an Operating system you had when you first got the machine

Get all High priority updates from Windows Updates, let me know how it goes

tanya80 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 02, 2012, 01:24:53 PM »

Hi,

I've tried a few times to rescue data but each time I get an error saying "An error occurred while writing the data. Rescue data will exit." What do i do next?

Thanks,
Tanya

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