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Looking for Win 98SE Recovery CD for Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS
Gary Richtmeyer wrote in message ... This NG may not be the best place to post this, but I'm getting desperate: I have a customer with a Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS who was running Win 98SE. She has wiped her C: drive completely clean (don't ask!) and asked me to reinstall Win 98SE. Normally I would use the Recovery CD that came with the PC, but she doesn't have any of the books or CDs. I have a full retail version of Win 98SE to do the install, but don't have any of the VAIO-proprietary software drivers. I've contacted Sony and they stock and sell Recovery CDs for lots of VAIO PCs, but nothing is available for the R553DS, not the Recovery CD nor any of the software drivers. They understand my situation, but say there's nothing they can do. I've done driver searches many times before for other situations, but coming up dry on this one ... plus, I can't tell what some of the hardware cards (no markings) and there's no way of identifying the onboard hardware (e.g. audio). Bottom line: I need to acquire a copy of the System Recovery CD for a Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS. I've Googled till I'm blue in the face, but am striking out. Does anybody have one or can point me to someplace that might have one? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW |
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Looking for Win 98SE Recovery CD for Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS
All you will need after the install of the system
is the drivers for the hardware of that particular Sony PC. And that is the crux of the problem as stated in my original post. But there's a happy end to this story which I'll post separately. Gary Richtmeyer "ppoatt" wrote in message ... But... With any Win98SE CD and that web page I refered you to you can get the PC to work. Any Windows system CD will work on just about any machine. All you will need after the install of the system is the drivers for the hardware of that particular Sony PC. ...I think? ...I'm pretty sure. -----Original Message----- Thanks, but that's the Sony VAIO support site and I've already been there. They don't show a Recovery CD, which is what prompted my phone call to them only to have them tell me "it's not available anymore". Gary Richtmeyer "ppoatt" wrote in message ... Try this web page: http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/perl/modelpage.pl? template=EN&mdl=PCVR553DS It may have what you are looking for. -----Original Message----- This NG may not be the best place to post this, but I'm getting desperate: I have a customer with a Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS who was running Win 98SE. She has wiped her C: drive completely clean (don't ask!) and asked me to reinstall Win 98SE. Normally I would use the Recovery CD that came with the PC, but she doesn't have any of the books or CDs. I have a full retail version of Win 98SE to do the install, but don't have any of the VAIO-proprietary software drivers. I've contacted Sony and they stock and sell Recovery CDs for lots of VAIO PCs, but nothing is available for the R553DS, not the Recovery CD nor any of the software drivers. They understand my situation, but say there's nothing they can do. I've done driver searches many times before for other situations, but coming up dry on this one ... plus, I can't tell what some of the hardware cards (no markings) and there's no way of identifying the onboard hardware (e.g. audio). Bottom line: I need to acquire a copy of the System Recovery CD for a Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS. I've Googled till I'm blue in the face, but am striking out. Does anybody have one or can point me to someplace that might have one? Thanks for any help. Gary Richtmeyer . . |
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Looking for Win 98SE Recovery CD for Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS
Thanks to all who posted. I've got the PC running with all the drivers and
the customer is happy. The turning point was when I found an old, obscure post where someone was selling the exact same model. The "for sale" post listed all the hardware in the PC (even the onboard stuff). Using that list, I was able to locate all the needed drivers. Gary Richtmeyer "Gary Richtmeyer" wrote in message ... This NG may not be the best place to post this, but I'm getting desperate: I have a customer with a Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS who was running Win 98SE. She has wiped her C: drive completely clean (don't ask!) and asked me to reinstall Win 98SE. Normally I would use the Recovery CD that came with the PC, but she doesn't have any of the books or CDs. I have a full retail version of Win 98SE to do the install, but don't have any of the VAIO-proprietary software drivers. I've contacted Sony and they stock and sell Recovery CDs for lots of VAIO PCs, but nothing is available for the R553DS, not the Recovery CD nor any of the software drivers. They understand my situation, but say there's nothing they can do. I've done driver searches many times before for other situations, but coming up dry on this one ... plus, I can't tell what some of the hardware cards (no markings) and there's no way of identifying the onboard hardware (e.g. audio). Bottom line: I need to acquire a copy of the System Recovery CD for a Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS. I've Googled till I'm blue in the face, but am striking out. Does anybody have one or can point me to someplace that might have one? Thanks for any help. Gary Richtmeyer |
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Looking for Win 98SE Recovery CD for Sony VAIO PCV-R553DS
APPLAUSE!!!
-- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "Gary Richtmeyer" wrote in message ... Thanks to all who posted. I've got the PC running with all the drivers and the customer is happy. The turning point was when I found an old, obscure post where someone was selling the exact same model. The "for sale" post listed all the hardware in the PC (even the onboard stuff). Using that list, I was able to locate all the needed drivers. Gary Richtmeyer |
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To Gary Richtmeyer
I have a Sony VAIO model PCV-R553DS, and I have the recovery discs; unfortunately in talking to the Sony Folks my problem in recovering my computer is probably a faulty "system recovery disc"..... How did you solve your difficulty? Quote:
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they have the recovery cd's but it'll cost you $20 bucks. -- eatbush ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eatbush's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=7609 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=51252 Visit - http://gallery.techarena.in/showgallery.php/cat/517/ | http://forums.techarena.in/archive/i...8-p--p-72.html | http://forums.techarena.in/archive/i...8-p--p-71.html | http://forums.techarena.in/archive/i...8-p--p-70.html | http://forums.techarena.in/archive/i...8-p--p-69.html |
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