Can't boot up and don't have the restore cd

[Guest]

I bought a Sony Vaio laptop a year ago. I was not given any cd's or floppy's
to restore operating system when I bought it. Now the laptop does not boot
up, and gives me this message: "Reboot and Select proper boot device or
insert boot media in selected boot device and press key". I can only go into
the BIOS, I selected hard disk to see if could detect the OS but no
luck!...Please help!!...Is there any miracle solution?? Thank You!

 

[Jerry]

Ask Sony.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

It is normal these days for computer vendors to ship faulty products
hoping that the buyer will fix themselves!

Dell has made a provision of $450 million for faulty computers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4395014.stm

People would be better off buying barebone bundles and building
themselves from scratch!

Standards have deteriorated dramatically these days in pursuit of
profits and outsourcing!

 

[bjfc]

I bought a Sony Vaio laptop a year ago. I was not given any cd's or
floppy's
to restore operating system when I bought it. Now the laptop does not
boot
up, and gives me this message: "Reboot and Select proper boot device
or
insert boot media in selected boot device and press key". I can only go
into
the BIOS, I selected hard disk to see if could detect the OS but no
luck!...Please help!!...Is there any miracle solution?? Thank You!

Hi
if you can try to install belarc it is a free program that gives you
information on all of the programs, licenses, ram, hard drive, OS,
everything on the computer. That will be a start. You could contact
Sony to see if you can get the start up disk or the disks you might
need. I have two Sony viaos and have all the disks that came with it.
You should be able to get them
good luck
barbara

 

[neil]

There may be a recovery partition you can use. Try tapping F10 as the bios
loads to see if you get a menu.

Neil