A glutton for punishment, that's me...

[alexpgp]

So I decide, what the heck? why not just bite the bullet and create the recovery disks.

What an idiot I am.

The process completes 7 of 9 disks and then - for no apparent reason - gives up the ghost, as if I'm finished. I'm looking at a program screen that's waiting for me to actually start the recovery process. Starting the process again takes me to - you guessed it - the beginning of the whole procedure, with no hope or hint of skipping the creation of 7 disks that (presumably) have already been made.

Sorry, Sony. Fool me once, that's your fault. Fool me twice, it's my fault. If you really expect me to feed yet another 7 disks into the maw of the monster before having the procedure abort again, you've got another thing coming.

I should probably have taken the hint about buying the disks direct from Sony.

Cheers...

Comments

[saeok.livejournal.com]

Can the recovery image be written over the network to another system?

Included below for you are a few wireless thoughts. This is not official tech support, nor an offering for such. Perhaps an outside list of troubleshooting steps will help; that is all. If/when you get that problem solved I would be interested in hearing about the solution.


Duplicate the issue.

Has it ever worked?
Can you do a Windows system restore?
Is your antenna powering up?
Do you have any interference - wireless phones, microwaves, large bodies of water?

Reset router.
Reset notebook.

What is your network SSID?
What channel is your Router set to?
What channel is your WLAN card set to?
What mode is your router set to?
What mode is your WLAN card set to?
What protocol is your router speaking?
What protocol is your WLAN card speaking?

Are there any other wireless devices working from the router?
Are there any other wired devices working from it?
How is the notebook connected to the Internet?
(eg laptop via wireless to router to ethernet to cable modem to coax to wall)
What indicators do your devices have? What do they show?

Does your card show in device manager?
Have you enabled full power to the WLAN card in device manager?

How is your signal strength?
Is your winxp firewall enabled?
Is Windows configured to automatically setup your network?
Can you set those settings manually?
Is your TCP/IP protocol set to get ip, dns, and gateway automatically?
Can you set TCP/IP settings manually?

What's does your routing table show?
Does arp show any addresses?
What does an ipconfig show?

Can you ipconfig /release?
Can you ipconfig /renew?

What is the address of your default gateway?
Can you ping your default gateway?
Can you ping google.com?
Can you ping 216.239.37.99?
What is your dns set to?

Reload driver. Repeat.
Check for updated nic driver. Repeat.
Check for updated router firmware. Repeat.

Can you backup your data, reinstall the operating system and start at the beginning again?

Can we send out a new wireless card?

Can we bring this in to a bench technician

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

saeok,

Thanks for the thorough response. For my part, I'm just going to wait until Sony gets back to me on this. I do not (repeat not) want to be reloading drivers or restoring operating systems this early in the game; I've had the system for less than 10 days. :^)

Installing a PCMCIA wireless card appears to solve the problem of wireless connectivity. I browsed the 'net for quite a while, with no hiccups.

The buzz on the street is that the OS restore data is in a separate 5-GB partition. If I find myself with time hanging heavily on my hands, I might try to figure out a way to get at the data, but as I said, for now, I'll just wait until Sony gets back to me. :^)

Cheers...