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Hello, everyone. I am knew to this site and I have already learned some stuff :)

but I have this sony vaio laptop... and I tried to reformat it but some stuff happened and it turns out that the CD can not put the BIOS on this computer.... aghh...

But so when I turn on my conmputer

A black screen comes up that says SONY... and the next screen will come and its all black and it says.. Operating System not found.

So...Does anyone know where to get a sony vaio laptop BIOS at?

My model is PCG-V505BX
But it BIOS doesn't have to be that model... I just want so my computer to turn on... Ill get the right drivers and all later...


Thank you all:) and haha I like your smileys :P

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Brief, practical recovery plan for a Sony VAIO PCG‑V505BX (historic model)

The PCG‑V505BX originally shipped with Windows XP Home and a roughly 5 GB hidden recovery partition that holds the factory image; a full reformat or repartitioning commonly removes that partition and the factory restore path. If the OEM recovery partition is intact, VAIO’s built‑in recovery tools can restore the factory image; if it was overwritten, a different approach is required. (PCG‑V505BX manual / specs.)

If the VAIO recovery area still exists, invoke the VAIO Recovery Center at boot (Assist on some models or F10 on start). Use the Rescue Data option first to copy any important files to an external drive, then Run “Restore C: Drive” or “Restore Complete System” as needed. These Rescue/Restore steps are part of Sony’s documented recovery workflow. (Sony: VAIO recovery & Rescue Data.)

If F10/Rescue doesn’t appear (or the recovery partition was removed): confirm whether the hard disk is detected in firmware/BIOS and the boot order. If the drive is missing, reseat it or remove it and test in a USB enclosure on another PC to copy files or run diagnostics. When the drive is seen but the bootloader is damaged, run the appropriate repair tools for the OS installed (XP uses the Recovery Console commands such as fixmbr / fixboot; Vista/7+ use bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /rebuildbcd). These repair steps are standard Microsoft procedures. (Sony: recovery notes & F10, Microsoft: bootrec/Windows RE, XP Recovery Console / fixmbr.)

A final note on media: Sony no longer supplies factory recovery media for VAIO PCs that shipped with operating systems earlier than Windows 7; options are to obtain original recovery discs from the original seller (if available), use a generic Windows install disc appropriate to the original OS and then pull drivers from Sony’s model pages, or replace a failed drive and install a fresh OS. Back up data first and prefer the Rescue Data path before any destructive restore. (Sony: recovery media policy, testing/removing laptop drives.)

Notes: this expands on earlier forum suggestions from and by showing the model’s recovery behavior, how to preserve data first, where to run repair commands, and what to do when the recovery partition has been lost.

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The BIOS comes programmed into a chip on your motherboard. Replacing (reformatting) the OS will not affect this. That first screen that says SONY is actually your BIOS showing the screen.

You are probably not looking for a BIOS, but an OS. You should have gotten an Operating System CD with the laptop. Some suppliers ship without discs, but have a utility pre-installed that you can use to write recovery CDs.

You might have to go back to the place you bought the laptop and ask them to burn you a copy of the recovery discs if you have a system that came with the pre-installed recovery disc creation utility.

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hi, if you want to get inside the BIOS of your computer, when your computer boots up, press ESC then you can see which key to press to go inside BIOS, mostly BIOS uses delete key or either F1 key to get through , but BELROG got a good suggestion just go back to the place where you buy u'r laptop and ask them to burn a copy of your recovery disc if possible

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after opening my sony vaio laptop, a message appeared as "no operating system was found" so what should i do? please let me know. thank you so much

Member Avatar for mazy2500

yea i got the same thing playing around tryiny to mac the vaio with osx f2 at start up will let you play with settings again find reset to factory default then you should be good to go or install your disc if anyone has info on how to get around the bios settings to allow new or different os pls reply thanks for now and good luck

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Check the dates, this thread has been dead for 2 years!!!

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