hi my sony vaio vgn nr32m laptop does not work, i bought it of someone and im beginning to think that it could be stolen. it was working fine but suddenly it just would not let me even boot up so i wiped all the origanal stuff of which was vista home addition. then i installed windows xp ultimate and now every time i turn it on it gets to the loading page where it says windows xp loading then turns off and comes on again continueasly

scott, January 2009

hi there, my new sony vaio start up but stay on a white screen and does not change to anything else. it did work ok for the first 2hours then when i shout it down and start it back it was white screen. you can here it load up. can anyone help me

gary anderson, January 2009

Try this
Don't bother to reformat the disk, Do a dish wipe instead
Choose an 00000000 pattern if you have the option, repeat twice, reload windows from scratch, if you have any further trouble change the hard drive, you can get a new one for for less that £60.

nrb, January 2009