- Feb 16, 2014
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My moms got an antique Sony Vaio Model: PCV-A11L. Its from 04' and needless to say these older models are quite a bit harder to work on. It's still useful for light internet browsing and word processing which is all she uses it for. But the OS has been bloated and bogged down ever since me and my brothers lived in our child hood house (ill let you connect the dots). Anyways, Im using a usb to install Windows XP Media Center 2005 genuine (Mum lost the original DVD install so I acquired a download through Sony) with key code that came on the back of the PC.
HDD:
I have formatted the HDD to NTFS, is there possibly further processing steps I need to take? Im formatting with a USB to sata powered cable, disk utility offers a master boot partition option in the partition options which I will likely be trying in the next couple hours here.
USB:
I have the windows install setup on a USB thumb drive (16GB Sandisk Cruzer). It was copied onto the thumb drive using Rufus 1.4.10.514.
Ive got photos of the BIOS settings and Plop menu and stall:
http://s40.photobucket.com/user/jlwjr/library/Moms%20PC%20BIOS
Im Im just having trouble installing, I can boot into Plop just fine but when I select USB the program reads out "blah blah blah, host 1" (see pics) and from there Im not sure where to go. Ive done alot of research but I have a feeling something isnt formatted right or something small. Anyways if you could take a look and give me some pointers it would make me and my ma happy.
Regards,
- Jack
HDD:
I have formatted the HDD to NTFS, is there possibly further processing steps I need to take? Im formatting with a USB to sata powered cable, disk utility offers a master boot partition option in the partition options which I will likely be trying in the next couple hours here.
USB:
I have the windows install setup on a USB thumb drive (16GB Sandisk Cruzer). It was copied onto the thumb drive using Rufus 1.4.10.514.
Ive got photos of the BIOS settings and Plop menu and stall:
http://s40.photobucket.com/user/jlwjr/library/Moms%20PC%20BIOS
Im Im just having trouble installing, I can boot into Plop just fine but when I select USB the program reads out "blah blah blah, host 1" (see pics) and from there Im not sure where to go. Ive done alot of research but I have a feeling something isnt formatted right or something small. Anyways if you could take a look and give me some pointers it would make me and my ma happy.
Regards,
- Jack
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