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Super! Plus a great price too.

It does say this in case you missed it. MAKE SURE that XP drivers are available for your system before purchasing. This is not a retail box copy of windows, so please know what you're buying before making a purchase, as returns are not accepted.

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Your system was already xp so drivers do exist for it. Theyre probably on that oem disk. Give me the model number of your laptop and i'll get the driver page for you.

Sony Vaio VGN-A790, thank you!

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Here is your driver page. 

 

http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=VGNA790&LOC=3#/downloadTab

 

For ease of your own sanity download AT LEAST all of the ones that have to do with wireless and lan and have them on a usb drive or disk before formatting your laptop.

(The wireless and wireless lan ones at the bottom of that page.)

 

(Nothing drives me crazier than working on a laptop and realizing after its formatted I can't connect to get the drivers)

 

Now I have a usb wireless adapter that carries it's own drivers :P

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Here is your driver page. 

 

http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=VGNA790&LOC=3#/downloadTab

 

For ease of your own sanity download AT LEAST all of the ones that have to do with wireless and lan and have them on a usb drive or disk before formatting your laptop.

(The wireless and wireless lan ones at the bottom of that page.)

 

(Nothing drives me crazier than working on a laptop and realizing after its formatted I can't connect to get the drivers)

 

Now I have a usb wireless adapter that carries it's own drivers :P

Thank you! From what your saying am i doing the right thing? My system is stuck in a reboot  loop, I think from a power surge. I can't use

F8 for some unknown reason. The key just doesn't work. I can't therefore get to the bsod screen to read my error. I don't think at least after talking to a few posters that I am doing a reformat, I thought I was just trying to get to the bsod(by using the bootable disk) screen to read the error, and then what I understood was to replace the necessary file to fix it and be able to boot up properly. Do I understand correctly?

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Well that's the thing you don't actually read a bsod that way they create mini dumps that can be read but only if you can access them which you cannot.

 

Since your systems been rendered unbootable you can try either 

 

A.) A repair install (Typically works fine as long as their was no hardware failure) <-- this will likely work fine in your purposes because it replaces broken and missing files and regentries.

or

B.) A "Dirty" over installation of xp to recover files and pics whatnot with a clean install and re setup afterwards)

 

Any way about it you're going to need a full xp disk and that's really a good price.

 

Since your in the states like me I am willing to give you phone assistance after you get your disk.

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Well that's the thing you don't actually read a bsod that way they create mini dumps that can be read but only if you can access them which you cannot.

 

Since your systems been rendered unbootable you can try either 

 

A.) A repair install (Typically works fine as long as their was no hardware failure) <-- this will likely work fine in your purposes because it replaces broken and missing files and regentries.

or

B.) A "Dirty" over installation of xp to recover files and pics whatnot with a clean install and re setup afterwards)

 

Any way about it you're going to need a full xp disk and that's really a good price.

 

Since your in the states like me I am willing to give you phone assistance after you get your disk.

Thank you so much, for offering such a kind thing to do, and appreciated more than can possibly know!!! I will get back to you as soon as I get them :w00t::yes:

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This is what I got after doing as instructed, 1 thing I am unsure of as in the 1st attempt, is where the files merged end up. I assume in the xpsp3 folder, correct?

attachicon.gifintergrate sp3.JPG

 

Yes.

The idea is that a copy of the "source" files (pre-SP) are in C:\XPSP3.

The SP file is in C:\SP3\, youfirst extract it's contents that will go in C:\SP3\i386\.

Then change current directory to C:\SP3\i386\ and run the update.exe with the /integrate switch pointing to the source files, i.e. C:\XPSP3\.

The update program will replace some of the files with the corresponding SP3 updated version (and change some other setting files.

After the procedure ends successfully, the files in C:\XPSP3 will be "current".

 

As said the procedure may not work for two reasons mainly:

  1. the "source" is not "valid" (i.e. the CD does not contain a "plain", "normal" XP SP1 - thank th egood Sony guys for making a mess of an otherwise simple thing)
  2. the "environment" is not suitable (i.e. the Windows 7 - thank the good MS guys for this - has some incompatibilities with update.exe).

In your particular case the two reason may even happen at the same time. :ph34r:

 

We *somehow* managed to "fix" similar situations in the past, see here:

 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120423-how-do-i-make-a-bootable-xp-cd-out-of-the-i386-folder/

(but in that case the files on the hard disk were used as "base")

and here (from a recovery CD):

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/91907-cannot-access-cd-containing-windows-xp-installation-files/

 

 

A thread where a similar procedure (in painstakingly detail) is represented is here:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24161&hl=

 

It is of course "a lot of work" :( and there is no real guarantee of success...

 

If you can afford to buy )or however procure yourself a "standard" CD it would surely be easier.

 

In any case, you will need (to be on the safe side) to use a "real" XP or get this "Virtual Machine" for 7 and run the tools in it:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002

 

jaclaz

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f8 doesn't seem to work

....

I tried my sony OEM disk, but get nothing, except a progress bar saying it is installing the recovery console, but I never get a menu, just a solid blue screen with no mouse

...

I've tried hirens but only get an image of sky and grass, no icons or start menu.

This is bad. There might be more problems than just a botched XP.

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f8 doesn't seem to work

....

I tried my sony OEM disk, but get nothing, except a progress bar saying it is installing the recovery console, but I never get a menu, just a solid blue screen with no mouse

...

I've tried hirens but only get an image of sky and grass, no icons or start menu.

This is bad. There might be more problems than just a botched XP.

 

from a few other responses I am reading this is standard, the disk sony made contains xp home & xp pro, this is why nothing is working, I need an xp home retail version, the original disk doesn't work, because sp3 is what is installed, no other problems, hard drive is only 2.5 years old, and I am stuck in a reboot loop

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This is what I got after doing as instructed, 1 thing I am unsure of as in the 1st attempt, is where the files merged end up. I assume in the xpsp3 folder, correct?

attachicon.gifintergrate sp3.JPG

 

Yes.

The idea is that a copy of the "source" files (pre-SP) are in C:\XPSP3.

The SP file is in C:\SP3\, youfirst extract it's contents that will go in C:\SP3\i386\.

Then change current directory to C:\SP3\i386\ and run the update.exe with the /integrate switch pointing to the source files, i.e. C:\XPSP3\.

The update program will replace some of the files with the corresponding SP3 updated version (and change some other setting files.

After the procedure ends successfully, the files in C:\XPSP3 will be "current".

 

As said the procedure may not work for two reasons mainly:

  1. the "source" is not "valid" (i.e. the CD does not contain a "plain", "normal" XP SP1 - thank th egood Sony guys for making a mess of an otherwise simple thing)
  2. the "environment" is not suitable (i.e. the Windows 7 - thank the good MS guys for this - has some incompatibilities with update.exe).

In your particular case the two reason may even happen at the same time. :ph34r:

 

We *somehow* managed to "fix" similar situations in the past, see here:

 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120423-how-do-i-make-a-bootable-xp-cd-out-of-the-i386-folder/

(but in that case the files on the hard disk were used as "base")

and here (from a recovery CD):

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/91907-cannot-access-cd-containing-windows-xp-installation-files/

 

 

A thread where a similar procedure (in painstakingly detail) is represented is here:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24161&hl=

 

It is of course "a lot of work" :( and there is no real guarantee of success...

 

If you can afford to buy )or however procure yourself a "standard" CD it would surely be easier.

 

In any case, you will need (to be on the safe side) to use a "real" XP or get this "Virtual Machine" for 7 and run the tools in it:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002

 

jaclaz

 

I'm sorry I keep clicking the quote button to respond, but I haven't seen another way or button to click. I have found a disk on ebay with sp3 installed on it, so I will try it, just waiting to hear back from seller to make sure it's not a manufacture disk like dell or something, to make things work the easiest, I hope I can find the error and replace the file, so I can boot normally after that. By the way, does jaclaz stand for Jaclas as in the native american santo domingo necklace? Just curious because I have a pair of Jaclas

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 By the way, does jaclaz stand for Jaclas as in the native american santo domingo necklace? Just curious because I have a pair of Jaclas

 

Naah.

There is a much simpler explanation :yes:, it's actualy a shortening of my name and surname:

http://jaclaz.altervista.org/Projects/USB/USBstick.html

 

...though I thought jacla was a Navajo/Native American thingie:

http://nativeamericanjewelrytips.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/jacla-jackla-jocla-no-matter-how-you-spell-it-what-is-it/

 

jaclaz

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