Solved Sony VAIO T Series SVT13112FXS 13.3" dual boots problem

[TORO35]

Hello all, I am very new to the forum

I have a problem with dual boots. I created a USB boot drive and I was able to boot up into an install menu and up to the license agreement screen, and following screen.

but unable to see any partitions that i'd like to installed windows 8. Any help is appreciated.

thanks again!

 

[TORO35]

here is the picture.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Welcome to EightForums, TORO35.

Go ahead and select custom install. The next screen screen should give you the choice of drives/partitions.

 

[TORO35]

thanks for quick replied. I did that and it comes up with the following screen without any partitions. Please see the attached picture

I have no problem with my other two computers and laptop (Toshiba). those computers and laptop are installed from DVD. Was that because I installed this laptop from USB Drive?

Thanks again!

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Your quite welcome. I gues you were posting that last pic when I was posting. You were a bit faster.

Not sure what the problem is. Kind of wierd that drives don't show up. Did you create the USB correctly? Please check it compared to this tutorial: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2227-create-bootable-usb-dvd-windows-8-iso.html

 

[MrShowdown]

Try clicking the Load Driver button.

 

[TORO35]

I will re-create a USB boot drive again with the above instructions and try it again. will post result

 

[TORO35]

Try clicking the Load Driver button.

i did and it looks for the driver and i dont know that was that

 

[TORO35]

Try clicking the Load Driver button.

when i clicked on the Load Driver button, it show the following picture and still dont see any partitions.

 

[TORO35]

I did re-created USB boot drive with the above instructions. Same result.
Any inputs, suggestions is greatly appreciated

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Just for grins, how about the refresh button?

 

[Tepid]

You will need to find the driver for that system, however, I would have thought it might be a part of the Win8 install.
May want to contact Sony.
But you can also look Here for the driver yourself,, unfortunately I do not know which install you will need. I am not familiar with that model
It will need to reside on a USB device, such as the one that you have Windows 8 on, might work.

However, that system is supposed to fully support Win8

 

[theog]

How to load the Sata Controller drivers:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/9573-sata-driver-load-windows-8-setup.html

You can download your F6 drivers from here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...t=Intel®+Rapid+Storage+Technology+(Intel®+RST

 

[TORO35]

You will need to find the driver for that system, however, I would have thought it might be a part of the Win8 install.
May want to contact Sony.
But you can also look Here for the driver yourself,, unfortunately I do not know which install you will need. I am not familiar with that model
It will need to reside on a USB device, such as the one that you have Windows 8 on, might work.

However, that system is supposed to fully support Win8

I have thought of that, but dont know which drivers I need. I already have contacted Sony, but they said they dont support dual boot. I will try your link today when I go home.

thanks

 

[theog]

Driver link in post 13.

 

[Tepid]

Yep, follow theog's links. That's what you need.

 

[TORO35]

[/QUOTE]=You can download your F6 drivers from here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...t=Intel®+Rapid+Storage+Technology+(Intel®+RST[/QUOTE]

Thank you Tepid,

What is F6 Drivers?

 

[TORO35]

How to load the Sata Controller drivers:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/9573-sata-driver-load-windows-8-setup.html

You can download your F6 drivers from here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Chipsets&ProductLine=Chipset+Software&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+Rapid+Storage+Technology+(Intel%c2%ae+RST

Thank you Theog!

What is F6 drivers/

 

[TORO35]

Problem solved...

Thanks again Theog!!

 

[theog]

You are welcome.