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Sony Vaio Care program /reinstalling windows 7 not working
I am currently working on a friends Sony Vaio laptop VPCC series and have encountered the following problems.
Upon booting message states:"imminent Hard Disk Failure" back up all you data. I did this. I then attempted making recovery disks...would not go beyond 44% on Disk 1. Recovery programs tells me that 3 disks will be required.
Replaced HDD with a new drive of like quality...was able to enter BIOS using F2 key...pressed "boot from Optical Drive". Inserted a new OEM copy of Win7...was able to get beyond the first few questions of installing the new OS, 1. Country, 2. Language, 3. Keyboard...pressed "Next", the machine began scanning...then "unable to install on this disk...Unallocated space, etc. Tried formatting HDD...would not create a partition. I feel that the problem lies in the MFR proprietary options that are not allowing me to install my fresh copy of Windows 7 OS.
The installed Sony Vaio Care program will not even let me create recovery disks. Any ideas out there, besides telling my buddy to relegate this Laptop to the paper weight category and never buy Sony again!
Don't mean to be a Sony basher...but after several hours with negative results, i have lost my patience with this machine. The machine is only 2 yrs old...and the HDD is about to crash...can't believe it.