Every time I try to factory restore my vgn nws11 s vaio it says no execute or something like that I dont want to take it to the shop as this might be costly any advice is welcome
paul did your son at any time remove the hidden restore partion on the hard drive?? is the hard drive seen by the system bios. http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGN-NW11S_S/tips-and-solutions
if the drive failed or the recovery partion is gone you have to buy a set of disks from sony.