THANK U FERNANDO, i had no idea what was wrong with my computer and had NO idea what to do for like 2 weeks now!!! i am so close to fixing it, the only problem i have is i have NO IDEA what SATA driver i need, i mean the vaio site doesnt tell me and i tried talking to an online rep and in short, he said they didnt know either. From a different site i found that supposedly its an intel ich9m-E/M SATA AHCI, BUT this is for 32 bit vista, my computer came with 64 bit vista and all it said for its sata driver was original intel SATA i am SO confused. I have nLite and everything ready, i just need these darn drivers !! ahh sry just 2 weeks without my baby has made me crazy lol, plz help :-) sry i forgot to mention my computer is a VAIO vgn-fw170J originally ran 64 bit vista premium home and student edition 4 gigz of ram 320 gigz of memory and it currently has no operating system thanks in advance