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I have a similar Sony at work. Never had any problems and upgraded to a new sony and installed an extra drive (sometime last year)
Are you using an XP disk or the Sony recovery disks (you would have had to make these bootable DVD's following the instructions)
It sounds to me that you are using an XP install disks instead of the Sony Recov. The XP install disks will not have the mobo drivers and all that. Try going to Sony's site and downloading all the drivers and installing them.
Oh yeah, when I checked sony's site it asked which of these model's
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/m [...] l=pcv-A31L but they do offer the drivers as downloads 
Message edited by bc4 on 11-22-2007 at 01:54:11 AM
SUCCESS - FINALLY!!!
Yes, the Sony site did have a driver which I must have overlooked. A special driver did have to be loaded during Windows Setup using F6.
For any poor souls who may come across this thread, the driver is located at:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/s [...] &os_id=16#
It is an Intel RAID driver and is critical for Windows to recognize your drive.
Thanks bc for pointing me again to the Sony site. I think the reason I missed it before was Sony has it listed under "Security" --- wtf?
this is what it states,
and when i press enter it brings me up to the same request.
Message edited by awaselito on 03-12-2009 at 02:57:01 AM
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