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Originally Posted by Houndog777
BIOS looks different? Thats worrying.
Clear the CMOS by jumper and then adjust BIOS to boot from CD. Let the windows install proceed to the stage where it details your hard drive and see if it looks correct.
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Not too sure what you mean by Clear the CMOS by jumper. But i have booted by CD it only gets one step. Press Enter to install windows....ERROR. No HDD!
A quick update I am lucky enough to have another Vaio Laptop Handy and decided to go to the extreme of placing one of my hardrives from the Kaput one into the working one. It detected it fine and allowed me to install Windows on it, it ran all fine. So i decided to put it back in the Kaput one thinging possibly it will force it back to reconizing it if the windows was requesting a boot. No luck. When it came to loading an underscore just sits there blinking at you as if to laugh at your vain attempts.
This all pionts at the probelm isn't the hardrives them selfs but the laptop. However. When i placed the hardrive from the none Kaput one into the Kaput one it started to load it up. However during the load it would flash a blue screen with some writing on and reboot, it then trys to fix its self to no evale.
So.....It doesn't reconize HDD at all, but it sort of does as it at least tried to load the other HDD????
I'm leaning towards it being a BIOS problem which scares me as i've never dealt with flashing BIOS before as its dangerous. But thats all i can see is left.......
So any tips on getting BIOS updates for a VAIO VGN AR21S Latop? and how to install them.
I remember reading up on this a little. What would happen if i unplugged the Laptop's battery...I.e. The battery on the Mother board. I am going to keep trying none extreme ways but they are all seeming futile.
By the Way thanks for the Reply :)