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    [HOW TO] recover bundled applications (like Adobe suite, PowerDVD, etc.) from SONY's hidden recovery partition

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by darxide_sorcerer, Jul 5, 2012.

  1. nazofn8

    nazofn8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hmm my original HDD didn't have the option to reinstall..

    I guess this is because I did a really clean install of Windows. I had to install all the drivers etc from scratch. No Sony software is present at all.
     
    nazofn8, Dec 4, 2012
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  2. LittOmAlt

    LittOmAlt Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    thanks for info. I cant find license for Lightroom in registry, anybody to help out?

    A tip is to export all registry as soon as possible and take a backup to another machine, then if a clean reinstall you may find all info from backup.

     
    LittOmAlt, Dec 26, 2012
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  3. turt

    turt Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I'd like to thank you for this tip, I did exactly what you did and got PowerDVD back really easily! Many many thanks :)
     
    turt, Jan 10, 2013
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    alien2000a Newbie

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    I have tried all the instructions but no avail. I'm on Windows 8 but I keep getting file accessed by other application error. Took hours of mine but no success. Could you please upload the extracted PowerDVD file? That'a all I'm missing right now and without this software the blue-ray drive on my Vaio is useless.

    Thank you in advance.:hi2:
     
    alien2000a, Feb 19, 2013
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  5. rosario

    rosario Newbie

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    Hi again, maybe I went thru the thread too fast. Does anyone know of a way to convert the MOD files back to a wim, I want to create a new boot volume with all the bloatware out of it. Like Norton and the likes and the NVIDA driver. Thanks in antipication.......
    /Regards Rosy
     
    rosario, Mar 25, 2013
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  6. mateusz_szczurek

    mateusz_szczurek Newbie

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    My problem as well on a Vaio AW. The problem is that Lightroom is distributed differently - there is an installer on factory HD, which you need to manually invoke. Then the installer asks for the serial, which (reportedly) is in some "lightroom install guide pdf", which, however, I was unable to find on the recovered c:\ drive at all. I went all the way to back up the windows 8 partition, revert to the factory Vista to get that stupid file. To no avail so far... And the sticker advertising Adobe Lightroom glares at me cheekily from the laptop bezel!

    Oh well, at least I simply registered the other Adobe applications, which gave me their serial on the adobe page.
     
    mateusz_szczurek, Jul 14, 2013
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    gustavocb Newbie

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    I have the following issue: I recovered the hidden partition, all the volumes to an external drive from a vaio and wiped the disk.
    The problem is that i am not able to recover the registry keys because the registry entries you provided in this post are, i suppose, obtainable from a local disk with windows installed, but I did a clean install of windows 8 and nothing is there. Where else to find?
     
    gustavocb, Feb 6, 2014
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