Hoping someone can help - apologies if this is the wrong community to ask this in!
My Vaio VPCEE2E1E(1W) (Windows 7) has been fine but started displaying a message saying the hard drive had developed a fault, and advised to backup files and not use it if possible.
So I backed-up everything I need and wrote recovery disks. I managed to find a new hard drive and fitted it. I have an MSDN subscription so I tried to install windows from that but the disk obviously wasn't bootable. I have a bootable version of Vista so I installed that, then installed a Windows 7 update.
But, most of the devices don't work. It doesn't recognise its own network port or wireless adapter and even the DVD drive isn't visible from Explorer although I can run stuff from the "Start > Run" option.
At one point while trying to read a DVD it even developed a BSD error! I didn't get time to read it before the computer reset.
I have looked on the Sony website but the .COM site doesn't support my model; it says use the European site which doesn't have all the drivers I need, just a SATA driver and a few others.
What should I have done? I can easily "redo from start" if I just know what steps to follow.