topic Re: Booting without CD drive in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-without-cd-drive/m-p/82796#M58901 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Optomark and welcome to Club Vaio.<BR /><BR />You will need to get your cd drive working as you cannot use your recovery disc to recover your system in any other way.<BR /><BR />What is the boot order in the BIOS? Have you tried changing the boot order to CD-ROM as the first device?<BR /><BR />Did the drive work normally before you changed the hard disc?<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.it/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:35:50 GMT Blencogo 2008-08-22T22:35:50Z Booting without CD drive https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-without-cd-drive/m-p/82794#M58900 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I just replaced my Laptop HDD after it went faulty. When I went to boot it for the first time using the CD drive the cd drive seemed dead. No lights noise etc. In BIOS it is recognised but cant get it to work. Is there any way to boot the disc without the CD drive working? My model is VGN-A215M<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:09:28 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-without-cd-drive/m-p/82794#M58900 optomark 2008-08-22T17:09:28Z Re: Booting without CD drive https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-without-cd-drive/m-p/82796#M58901 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Optomark and welcome to Club Vaio.<BR /><BR />You will need to get your cd drive working as you cannot use your recovery disc to recover your system in any other way.<BR /><BR />What is the boot order in the BIOS? Have you tried changing the boot order to CD-ROM as the first device?<BR /><BR />Did the drive work normally before you changed the hard disc?<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.it/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:35:50 GMT https://community.sony.it/t5/pcs-accessories/booting-without-cd-drive/m-p/82796#M58901 Blencogo 2008-08-22T22:35:50Z