I need help please Sony Vaio

[ghostnet]

I own a Sony Vaio Vgn Ar11s notebook ,which operated on windows Xp. My system crashed i didnt creat any recovery disk before hand. I have a Windows XP Pro disk and also a Windows Vista Unlimited disk. I install the Vista, instead of the Xp pro there was no prob until it rebooted.
Now it is sayin a file is missing ,so i format again and tried to install XP,but now its saying that it cant find my hard drive.

Can anybody tell where I can find the recovery downloads,or how to install the raid and sata drive on my harddrive so xp can read it?


also when I press f6 my labtop isnt reading the cd-r disc nor the zip disc with the raid files.

I need help please?

Thanks in advance

[peterb]

If you go into the bios, are the disk drives and CD drive recognised there?

Do you mean Zip disks (as in Iomega Zip disk) or a disk on which files are stored in compressed (Zip) format?

[directhex]

remember xp will only load drivers from 3.5" floppy

also, there is no legal product called vista unlimited - there's a warez version, and frankly, if you have problems with it, tough, you sad little pirate

[ghostnet]

yes they are recognised in the bois. The zip driver i have is just a little 2 gig storage zip,U3

[ghostnet]

Morning direct hex,thanks for that if I didnt realize xp pro only reads 3.5 floppy, and the copy of vista that I have is unlimate its a simple mistake, Sorry.