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getting iastor.sys error

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by gghartman, 2009/04/10.

  1. 2009/04/10
    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    not sure if this is the right forum for this but here goes.

    am working on a sony vaio desktop vgc-ra840g. have the recovery dvd's from sony for this machine but when i try to rebuild the machine it blue screens me and give a stop 7e on iastor.sys even on a brand new hard drive this error comes up.

    bios keeps telling me that this is a scsi drive and theres no way. its a sata 250g and the new one i tried is a 320g sata.

    when i put another sata drive in the machine with xp already on it it boots to the windows logo just fine and doesnt seem to reflect scsi. have looked in the bios and nowhere does it say scsi.

    what the heck is going on here ???
     
  2. 2009/04/11
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    The recovery dvd does not contain the necessary sata drivers for the new hard drive, thus will get errors. You'd have to create a recovery dvd that includes the sata drivers for that new disk.

    When using a MS XP install media one can load the sata drivers via a floppy or usb floppy. Not sure about OEM recovery media.
     

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  4. 2009/04/11
    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    it tells me its looking for scsi drivers and even the bios says its scsi but that dont make sense this is a sata drive not scsi. this was the media that sony sent me based on the model of the sony. so did sony ***** up here ???
     
  5. 2009/04/12
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    No they didn't ***** up. You changed the hard drive. It's probably is different brand, model & size than the drive that ships w/ the comp.
     
  6. 2009/04/12
    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    nope the same drive. originally i was getting "bad system config info" blue screen and nothing i attempted would get past this. couldnt get to use xp chkdsk said drive was invalid could the second R with the xp cd nothing. sony recovery partition wouldnt work either so the only thing i could think to to was to reformat the drive and then get the recovery cd from sony and thats where i stand right now. i tired a totally new drive another sata and still the same iastor error and even that drive in the bios says its a scsi which just aint possible. really weird.
     

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