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Title: Sony vaio help?
Post by: Kindguy on April 22, 2007, 11:35:21 PM

I need to run a system restore on a Sony vaio my mom gave me. She deleted a bunch of stuff & the computer is screwed.

It's a nice one but I have no system restore disc. I do have my microsoft certificate #.
It's XP office.

Any advice?

Thanks
Jeff

Title: Re: Sony vaio help?
Post by: sygdwm on April 22, 2007, 11:53:56 PM

Quote from: Kindguy on April 22, 2007, 11:35:21 PM

I need to run a system restore on a Sony vaio my mom gave me. She deleted a bunch of stuff & the computer is screwed.

It's a nice one but I have no system restore disc. I do have my microsoft certificate #.
It's XP office.

Any advice?

Thanks
Jeff

pm sent.

Title: Re: Sony vaio help?
Post by: Kindguy on April 22, 2007, 11:56:24 PM

Thanks Dre. Just found out sony will send me a replacement disc.

 ;D

Title: Re: Sony vaio help?
Post by: blastroknow on April 23, 2007, 03:30:37 PM

Did she delete the VAIO Control Panel that might give you the option to burn the recovery discs off the hidden partition on the hard drive?

I just loaded XP Pro on a fresh hd in my Vaio and it was a real PIA because you have to have all the proprietary sony drivers instead of the regular XP drivers and it adds an extra hour on a reinstall and even then I couldn't get some stuff to work.  They certainly want to drive you through their install discs to insure the sony bloatware is in your face.

Title: Re: Sony vaio help?
Post by: kskreider on April 23, 2007, 04:57:15 PM

I have done a clean XP install on our Sony K13.  I had previously burned the recovery discs before making my attempt, but I never needed them anyway.  You can get all of the drivers that you need and the order in which to install them from Sony esupport (http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/select-system.pl?DIRECTOR=DRIVER). 

The only thing that I ended up needing to tweak hard was the hotkeys utility.  Someone out there has a fix for it and I am positive I either bookmarked it or saved the files, or both.  If that ends up being a continuing issue then let me know and I will dig it up.  Good luck

Title: Re: Sony vaio help?
Post by: Kindguy on April 23, 2007, 07:28:53 PM

Nice T+ to everyone. I'll post how it goes.