Thanks again Les. Yeah that looks like the way to go. I have a laptop HD to IDE adaptor. Unfortunatly no one I know has a firewire cdrom, as rare as a rocking horse turd round these parts. not doing it til mid next week will post back with the results. cheers guys [thumbsup2].
Breakit
Hi Les
Thanks for the advice but I dont have a floppy drive on the lappy, as its just a notebook. No onboard CDrom or floppy. the bios does give me an option to boot from cd rom but it wont use the usb cd rom. It seems that the boot from CDROM option in the Bios just refers to an iLink cd rom...
All good news to my ears thanks micker377. The only bad bit unfortunatly is the OS is XPpro and you say that Win XP doesn't allow swapping harddrives around, oh poo looks like i have to use an Ilink cd rom thats gonna cost £100quid. Im getting sick of sony they suck u in to buy extras, I already...
Thanks for the info micker377 When you say bare bones do u mean a pc without all the cards exept the graphics card ? silly isnt it that it it wont boot off the usb cdrom, I have all the nessacery drivers for the lappy, so if i load the OS on my pc it will obviosly pick up all the drivers it...
Re: Vaio laptop harddrives...
Hi guys
Does anyone know if the HD is easy to replace a sony vaio PCG-R600HFP its clicking, If so whats the max I can go to . Also Is there a way to get the operating system installed without using an iLink cd rom, as that seems to be the only way as far as I see...
Oh dear Im rather embarrassed about this. The pic,s I thought I had lost
were all sat in my D drive thank god. I did a search on my compuer for
*.jpeg and that revealed all of the ones i thought I lost they were in the D
drive [2thumbsup] I should have thought to do a search first. so that means...
Hello
Is there anyone here can help me with this little problem before the wife finds out [purple]
Im using Ifran view version 3.8 and have been for a while now I have been impressed with this great piece freebee software up until today, when I did a batch conversion renaming 450 photos
I...
Help me out here will ya guys. I got a lil problem thats driving me bonkers [3eyes] . for some strange reason my Pound symbol changes to the letter J so anything with a pound sign in my IE6 brouser has the letter J instead
Any Ideas
Paul
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