Alternative to a clean install

Will this work? Maybe, maybe not, we will see.
While I am contemplating a new partition for the Vista I was wondering about this scenario.

I thought I might give it a try. I have my Vaio set up with all of the bloat gone but the Sony partition is still on the HDD and the 6gig not available to me.

A lot of people on here have had a hard time removing the bloat ware and setting up their Vaio with all the drivers working. Rather then doing a complete reinstall why not just set up you computer deleting all of the crap. This would not touch any of the software and drivers needed. Then use a program like Disk Director (Acronis Disk Partition) to remove and recover the hidden Sony partition (which they named 0x12 Compaq setup).
This would also allow you to make a copy of the windows XP to your C drive then burning it so you have a copy of the OS before deleting the partition.
Doing it now.

 

It did not work.

It may have, if I understood the purpose of the second partition better.
Anyway, deleting the 2nd partition and recovering it was not the problem. The problem was that the SZ boots from that partition.
Like an idiot, I should have made a MBR and to have the computer boot from the C partition or made a bootable disk (still may have not worked). Long story short when I went to reboot, there was no OS to boot from. I tried to boot from a windows disk and it did not work, so only way to reboot was to use the Recovery disk, which caused me to do a clean install anyways.

The clean install was easy and had no problems.
It was very similar to the HP/Compaq and Gateways; install the OS, then drivers and update.
I did not use the recovery disk I made to reload the drivers as Sony recommended.
I went to the Asian Sony support and downloaded individually (37 programs and drivers) prior to this and used that. I used the SZ26TP which is the same as my US Z260P/C
Like I mentioned before on a different post, they seemed to do a better job of listing and updating the correct info. It's worth a look and read the FAQ and explore.
http://www.css.ap.sony.com/vaio/website/General/DownloadByCat.aspx?Category=VAIO Notebook
Longest part of all this was the windows update and me transferring my backup.

PS
By using the drivers from the Sony Asia site, I was able to fix the following issues.
Missing B/Lan icon from my tray. The US program/ drivers could not resolve this. Now it’s back.
When I unplugged my computer and reinserted the power cord the screen would not go back to maximum bright but it stayed on the battery setting, and when I changed it via the function button it would revert right back. Problem solved.

 

Are those drivers working also in English operating systems? 'Cause it says "Original Drivers For VGN-SZ3 Series (For Traditional Chinese Operating System)"

 

Yes I am using them, it is same as the english driver.