Sony S1 Boot Driver
Tisham Candella
The Vaio is personal and well out of warranty being from 2008. Is the BIOS HDD reference supposed to indicate how many GB storage, if OS and HDD are talking to each other? Or is the identification sufficient to prove the drive is working? (ATAPI is the make of the HDD) Inevitably - no system recovery disks!
If you have boot options when you turn the computer on, there may be some restore functions there, but not if the hard drive is damaged, nonfunctional, or the recovery partition is damaged/inaccessible.
Every VAIO I have ever used works OK until it breaks, then it is disposed of. They are a pain to get parts to work and finding drivers sucks. Just pull the drive, recover your stuff and junk the unit.
WARNING: THE MORE YOU PLAY WITH A POTENTIALLY FAILING/FAILED HARD DRIVE, EVEN THROUGH LEGITIMATE TESTING, THE MORE DAMAGE YOU CAN POTENTIALLY DO TO YOUR DATA. READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BELOW COMPLETELY FOR MORE INFORMATION BEFORE CONSIDERING OR ATTEMPTING ANYTHING ON YOUR OWN.
If the BIOS recognizes the drive, it should give some identifying information like a model # that you can search Google for to find the Manufacturer. Go to their site and look for an ISO that you can burn to a CD to boot from.
If the problem is only with your HDD, then your CD/DVD drive should still work. If the laptop was dropped, then that may not be the case, and the problem may be with the motherboard/controller that handles both the HDD and CD/DVD drive.
Using some sort of data recovery program can potentially lead to irrevocable loss of data. If the data is extremely important, and worth hundreds to thousands of dollars, then I recommend getting a professional company to inspect the drive in proper facilities to see if data recovery is possible and perform the recovery under clean room conditions. They are not cheap, so your data should be worth it before considering this.
You can try the internal, you can try an external, or you can just take the drive out and buy an adapter to put it into a regular computer and see if you can read the drive or use a recovery utility on it to see if it can find any information to recover:
A failing hard drive can crash/bluescreen a working computer. Sometimes a USB connection/enclosure can help keep that from happening and give a slightly better chance to recover data in such instances (but not guaranteed). Needing both types of interfaces can be common in attempting data recovery:
Really helpful guidance!
I will give it one more attempt using the suggested recovery programmes. I was also thinking of running the HDD hooked up to another functioning computer to see if the files can be read. But will take precautions!
Depending on where OP gets this from (local/online), there may be a few days of downtime waiting for shipping, where attempting recovery on the machine itself may not be wasting time, but will definitely require more advanced skills/knowledge to do so.
As Brendan points out: Without experience in this area, for ease of use in recovering and also having another drive already available for a destination for the recovered files, using another computer is easier and highly recommended.
IDE is fast disappearing but if you know anyone that has built their own desktop a few years back, they might have an IDE port on their motherboard since they were still included in retail motherboards until not too long ago. Besides that, it is easy to get an adapter as mentioned above.
It will need to show up somehow to be accessed. Did you say BIOS does display this drive? Have you noticed any odd sounds coming from it? If so, stop running it, and run it very sparingly anyway for testing in case it is a physical issue. Does it sound like it spins up when powered on? Spin down at all?
Hello, guys! I am currently working hard on my Xperia S. I want to unlock my bootloader, but not ready yet because I CANNOT INSTALL S1Boot Fastboot manually for my Xperia S. I am confused why, because it should work. How can I install it then?
Are you using the amended driver found in your Fastboot folder on your C: drive under usb_driver - You need to manually point it to this folder to install the correct driver but be quick about doing it as your device manager will only show the problem driver untill it can't find the correct driver in the dfault location
Assuming you have installed Fastboot then you now need to open your device manager - There are several ways to do this but one way is to right click my computer or computer left click properties then on the left choose device manager or if using XP select the tab Hardware then device manager - Now look for a yellow sysmbol which means a missing driver this will only show up when you connect your phone in fastboot mode - When it does show up right click this then select update driver and choose the manual method which says something like let me choose the path etc - Then using the manual method direct it to that folder you downloaded, If all goes well it will begin the driver update and yellow sysbol will disapear - Fastboot mode will now be fully working
In devices manger, I have installed the driver successfully but in device tree it still show "Android?"I have try fastboot devices and it cant find my 10 plus device. I have tried to install the driver in Windows 10 v19xx, the problem is gone
I'm having the same problem. I reverted it to Android 9 using Emma because I couldn't get MMS functionality to work. I wanted to make sure that I had everything functioing under Android, which it was.
I installed Zadig and started it up with the phone connected in fastboot mode (fastboot mode is reached on an Xperia XA2 Ultra if you turn it on while gently pressing volume down as it is connected with USB to the computer - this information is in the installation "manual" that you read when installing Sailfish X).
NB! It did not install the Sony driver as specified by Jolla. It installed a generic Android driver and in the list of devices it does not say "SONY" But Android under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers".
I have a VAIO Pro 13 laptop which had been upgraded to Windows 10 but was long overdue a clean install. The installation went fine, all partitions were removed and a single large partition created (possibly a little hasty). Booted into Windows fine, ran Windows update and then rebooted. The machine hung at the manufacturer logo. After no luck getting it to boot I re-ran the Windows installer only now to be presented with it not being able to find the hard disk. The disk is reported in the bios. I've tried various Intel sata drivers, which still show up when you check 'hide drivers not compatible with this pc', but no luck. The drive is never found. I'm guessing the first time round the correct driver was found from the existing install or maybe the Sony partitions? I've tried turning secure boot off in the bios and enabling legacy boot mode, no change. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
Yeah, I've tried every possible SATA driver. I'm fairly sure the disk is dead. Has anyone had any luck replacing the SSD in a Pro 13? I'm considering opening it up and trying to find an exact replacement for the currently installed SSD (I don't think I can determine this without opening it up)
Also, for the last couple of weeks, the power button will sometimes glow orange when the machine is put to sleep (even with the power cable connected). My understanding is that this is a sign of a weak battery that can't sustain the sleep (battery life is quite poor now).
Ive got a sony vaio VGN-N21S/W dual bootted with windows 7 and 8. Im trying to install the newer version of 8 but my optical drive refuses to work at boot up. Tried with an original windows 7 disc and 9 times out of ten it wont read this disc either at bootup which is strange as it seems fine when reading discs from within windows. So I made a bootable USB pen drive with 8 on it and set the bios boot order to USB flash first and tried with External drive boot enabled and disabled with no joy. So is it possable to boot from USB or not?.
If not is there another way of installing windows 8 on another partition from within windows 7 as when I tried it gave me no option to install to another partition so I assumed it would install over windows 7 which I dont want.
Changing the first boot device in the BIOS had no effect when trying to install windows from USB for me, but I found the "Boot Menu" by pressing the ESC key whilst booting up. From here I could select USB and windows 8 installed from my USB pen drive.
I found a page with instructions which pointed me to a Sony site where you can download a android_winusb.inf file which one is supposed to copy over the one in the Android SDK folder under extras\google\usb_driver\.
After right-clicking on that entry and selecting Update Driver Software..., then Browse my computer for driver software, I pointed to the Android SDK folder where I previously put the android_winusb.inf file (see above).
On this thread, I found a link to a thread on XDA Developers where one can download a "fastboot package" and "32/64bit drivers", but I am hesitant because these are EXE files from an unknown source and the thread's title suggests this is for Xperia Arc, not ZR.
I have seen this comment to a question concerning fastboot drivers and USB device IDs, so I tried to replace device IDs for SingleAdbInterface, CompositeAdbInterface and SingleBootLoaderInterface (sequentially, not all at once) with the one which I got from the Device Manager, which is USB\VID_0FCE&PID_0DDE&REV_0100. Unfortunately this didn't make any difference, the drivers are still not recognised.
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