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j522

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I have a sony vaio laptop with vista. All last week the computer would shut itself off after awhile and go straight into the revovery options when restarted. So about five times I had to do the system restore which would work. Now it doesnt even let me do the restore. It says a problem installing windows everytime. I have no idea what to do.
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Hi j522 ... :wave: ..:welcome:
did you create a recovery disk for your system...
if so boot from it and click on command prompt
at the prompt type chkdsk /r and press enter
this will take several hours...do not shut down while its running or you can cause more problems
it may apper to hang at a certain percent for a hour then move on...
it may also back up and over a area again...this is normal
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Hi I found a recovery disc anhd ran that before your reply. I can get to windows now but it wont let me connect to the internet. Im at device manage and there is a yellow ! next to network controller if that helps.
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whats the make and model number....
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Sony Vaio model number PCG-5L2L
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its quiting time for me so...go here and see if you can find your model #...get the missing driver and download it and install it...reboot and see if you can get on the internet
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where are we at on this... :confused:
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