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I have a sony vaio and when i turn it on it comes up with the sony vaio screen then goes blank with a flashing curser in the top left of the screen for about 5 mins and in this time if you press a key it bleeps at you. I can put a disk in it and loads the disk but it just stays a blank screen i have tried cotrol alt delete and nothing happens why ???

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As and suggested, the behavior you describe is a boot-stage failure. The VAIO splash appears and you get a blinking cursor with the keyboard still responding, which means power and basic firmware input are OK, but the boot process is stopping very early. The next step is to narrow hardware vs. bootloader so data is preserved where possible.

First checklist (do these in order):

  1. Enter the firmware/BIOS setup (use the key shown during the Sony splash). Confirm the internal drive is listed under Storage/Drives and that the boot order points to it. If the drive is missing, power down, remove the battery/AC, open the access panel only if comfortable, and reseat the drive connector.
  2. Watch/hear the drive on power‑up: drive activity LED, spinning or clicking noises. Repeated clicking or no spin = hardware fault; stop and consider drive removal for data rescue.
  3. Try booting with no USB devices attached (one faulty USB stick can halt boot). Also try reseating RAM sticks: boot with one module at a time to rule out bad memory.
  4. If the drive is present but firmware hands off to nothing (blinking cursor), try a boot/repair environment and run the usual boot repairs. In Windows repair environment use these commands if available:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

If those repairs fail but the drive is detected, retrieve important files before reinstalling: remove the drive and attach it to another PC with a SATA-to-USB adapter or use a rescue USB/PE environment to copy data. If the drive makes mechanical noises or is not detected after reseating, replacement is the likely outcome.

If unsure about opening the laptop or the drive contains important data, consider a local repair shop for diagnostics and safe data extraction.

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Your OS (Operating System) is possibly corrupt.

I will assume you are using windows. If you have nothing to back up please use your recovery disks and get a fresh install.

If you do wish to backup your data, Please visit http://www.LinuxMint.com and download the latest ISO and Burn it.

Once you boot from the CD it will ask you if you wish to try it, accept the first option. Once in it will let you access your Hard Drive from here you can backup whatever you want.

After you have what ever data you want you may shutdown and install the recovery disks, or Use you can click the icon on the Desktop "Install Linux Mint".

Enjoy.

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as finto said above, it's probally your OS. more importanly your hard drive. it's probally corrupted. not much i could tell since i have no idea how to troubleshoot the hard drive. i would recomemend just buying a new harddrive

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