My son-in-law gave me a SONY laptop and asked that I re-install the software
which came with it. He gave me all the diskettes from SONY. I can power up,
see the c: drive and the directories, but I cannot get to the CD ROM D:
drive. It always says invalid drive.

I tried the 6 individual disks from SONY which came with the unit and it
never succeeds to boot up from them. Holding F8 does not get me to the Boot
sequence, nor does Delete.

The Windows installation on it is missing some files and that is why he
wants me to re-install from the SONY Recovery CD's, but I am stumped in that
I cannot get to the CDROM drive.

It is a SONY Notebook PCG-Z505SX and the CDROM drive is an external drive by
SONY and it works. Tested it on my own laptop. It also shows Power on when I
power up his Laptop.

Any ideas?

Reboot and tap F2 to get into BIOS. Set CD ROM to1st boot .

Pop SONY Product Recovery CD-ROM (vol.1 of 2) into drive to install O/S.

Victor

"Ritter197" <Ritter197@Comcast.net> wrote in message
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> My son-in-law gave me a SONY laptop and asked that I re-install the
> software
> which came with it. He gave me all the diskettes from SONY. I can power
> up,
> see the c: drive and the directories, but I cannot get to the CD ROM D:
> drive. It always says invalid drive.
>
> I tried the 6 individual disks from SONY which came with the unit and it
> never succeeds to boot up from them. Holding F8 does not get me to the
> Boot
> sequence, nor does Delete.
>
> The Windows installation on it is missing some files and that is why he
> wants me to re-install from the SONY Recovery CD's, but I am stumped in
> that
> I cannot get to the CDROM drive.
>
> It is a SONY Notebook PCG-Z505SX and the CDROM drive is an external drive
> by
> SONY and it works. Tested it on my own laptop. It also shows Power on when
> I
> power up his Laptop.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>