01-22-2003, 05:32 PM
The hard drive probably has a secondary partition on it with restore files, system information and other things that Sony threw on there. On top of that, reformatting the boot partition will do nothing if the boot sector is not overwritten. This is most likely the area that your computer is getting its information from. The only way to overwrite the boot sector is to fdisk the drive and set up new partitions. (or boot from a windows xp install disk and let it re-partition the drive during setup for NTFS).