I have a Sony Vaio with Windows Xp Home edition with SP2 installed.
2 Megabytes of Ram. I contacted Sony regarding the following problem and got zip service. I wish I could post the reply ---so pathetic.
I reformatted my hard drive using the Sony recovery disks . I tried to put the Microsoft start up disks on floppy --it worked fine till I got to disk 3. It told me that the neccessary files were unavailable. What should be on disk 3?
I checked further.
This is what I found on the partition :
1. volume was blank: layout = partition; type= basic; file system= NTFS ; status =-healthy (Eisa config); capacity= 6.01 GB ; free space= 1.10

2. volume =C: layout = partition; type=basic; file system=NTFS; status =healthy (system)
capacity= 180.30GB: free space= 168.83GB
Disk 0 basic 186.31 online 6.01GB NTFS
and C =180.30 NTFS
I have an external floppy drive connected which is a Seagate floppy drive (ST 3200822AS) and this shows up as being on Drive 0 I have no drive 0 as far as I know. I plug it in via a USB portwhen needed.
I am sure that this maybe part of my problem The floppy I think is on the Hard Drive--not sure whether this should be there.
Disk F, G,H, I are removable and D and E are for DVD/CD .DISK 0 is the ST3200822AS (Floppy)
Should I uninstall the floppy and how do I do this. Do you think think may resolve the issue of Drive 0 and not being able to install the setup disks to a floppy drive.
I also tried to back up my partition by using Power Suite 2007. The partition would not back up--message was "partition backup failed"
I would appreciate some advise on resolving this partition issue.
Many thanks inadvance

Hi snoopy,

There is much that doesn't add up here. 2mb of RAM? Disk 0 would first HDD. Disk 1 would be your second an so on. You formatted your HDD, and what exactly are you trying to do from here, shouldn't you be using your Windows XP Setup CD to get your operating system back on your PC and what would be the purpose of backing up an empty partition?

Thanks for your reply.
If I had the Windows XP CD, I would not have a problem. This Sony came preinstalled so all I have are Recovery Disks. What I am trying to achieve is finding out why my Hard Drive is on Drive 0 when I have no drive 0 . Secondly it appears that my external floppy drive is being recorded as my hard drive and this does not sound correct.
Under Admin Tools I notice that the volume on partition 1 is not recorded but has 6 GB capacity ---so it is not blank.
I would be happy to send you a bmp file of the partition information.

Hi Snoopy, yeah a image of what your seeing would be good. Drive 0 IS your HDD, so I'm really not sure what you mean. Also, many PC's come with a "Utility Partition". This is a small partition at the start of your drive that help your PC to boot, and recover from any serious problems. To me, everything sounds normal, but please post a picture, I may not have read you correctly.

Hi
Many thanks for your reply and also for the 4 posts you sent along with your reply. I actually found the answer to my question in the post of July 2006 written by GaRHaR
Thanks to both of you

Cool, OK Snoopy, marked as Answered (in another thread).