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    Anyone with a SZ360P/C ? I needa big favor..

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by purezero, Oct 19, 2006.

  1. purezero

    purezero Newbie

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    Ok, I just bought this mofo 3 days ago brand new from a authorized dealer. Wouldnt boot right out of the box. well, it would boot, but froze at the windows startup.

    Called Sony, the suggested I do a recovery. I informed them that was impossible for me to do seeing as how they cant include the recovery dvd with a $2,500 computer, and my computer wouldnt boot the first time to burn my own.

    They told me I could send it to them, probley take 3 weeks or so to get back to me. I cant do that at the moment as this is my only computer right now. So I got a clean install of XP working, but its not legit. And half the Sony stuff wont work.

    I tried to buy a recovery set, but its on backorder till atleast november.

    Can someone with a 360 burn me a recovery dvd. I will gladly pay via paypal.

    I would really appreciate it.
     
    purezero, Oct 19, 2006
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  2. soccy

    soccy Notebook Geek

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    Just hit F10 during bootup, and you can restore the system using the recovery partition on your harddrive. No need for a DVD.
     
    gumbo, Oct 22, 2006
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    outie Notebook Consultant

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    Exactly as gumbo said. The recovery partition is in your HD, unless you also wiped it out during your clean XP installation.
     
    outie, Oct 22, 2006
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    The worst case scenario is a clean install using the link to sony esupport above... and seeing how many people do a clean install as their very first step, it's not much of a 'worst' case scenario :)

    ...try the recover partition... if it's there, you should be up and running within a very short amount of time.
     
    thekm, Oct 22, 2006
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    Well, as far as I know, that Hard Drive was DOA. It started clicking as soon as I booted.

    Took the 100gb 7,200 I had in my 700m and put it in the sony.

    I had pretty much everything working, just dont have some of the sony software such as the power management and stuff.

    Thanks though guys, I will get the recovery stuff whenever sony gets it off backorder.
     
    purezero, Oct 22, 2006
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