Topic: Sony vaio help?

[Kindguy]

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

[sygdwm]

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.

[Kindguy]

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

 

[blastroknow]

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.

[kskreider]

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. 

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

[Kindguy]

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