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    Can anyone tell me will this work?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by NsxMugen, Jan 28, 2007.

  1. NsxMugen

    NsxMugen Notebook Enthusiast

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    I want to reformat my computer and I know my SZ270 doesn't come with the XP Professional disc and the resource disc. I have a XP Professional CD and I want to know if I can reformat my computer by using my XP Professional CD because the product key is underneath the computer. After when I reformat it I can simply install all the drivers and programs that I want on my computer. Can anyone please tell me if this will work because I heard from one of my friends that he tried to do something with his computer and unfortunately his hard drive crashed. So I just want to make sure and know if this will work before I reformat it. Thanks in advance.
     
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    nerd78 Newbie

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    Let's see if i get it right:

    Your notebook came originally with XP Pro but you dont have the recovery disk.
    And the Product key you have is for XP-Pro.
    Now you wan't to install a normal XP-Pro-CD on your notebook. Right?

    Greets Tobi
     
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    surefire Notebook Consultant

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    Thats a good question.
    I myself dont know if a retail XP CD will work with d OEM key
    underneath the Laptop. I will try to find out...

    All Sony Drivers & Apps will work with any Windows XP
     
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    nerd78 Newbie

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    No OEM-Keys don't work with retail copies.
     
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    NsxMugen Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes I have a retailed window Professional CD and I want to reformat it by using that. Do you think it works because sony recovery program gives me back all these programs that I don't even use. If I can't do it what can I do to reformat my computer? If I call sony they are going to tell me to do the recovery way where no programs get deleted and it will be the same as the first day I got my computer. Please help me out here. Thanks.
     
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    Crypto Notebook Geek

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    are you sure you can't? I have an XP CD and I have reformatted a two PC's using this same disc and using the key on the bottom.
     
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    nerd78 Newbie

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    For me it didn't work. I have a oem-license for the windows media center edition. When i tried to make a fresh install with a retail copy of the MCE-CD it didn't accept my key. :confused:
     
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    nerd78 Newbie

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    I'm actually a little bit confused about what you exactly want to to :confused:

    When you want't to do a clean installation of windows xp without the whole recovery applications, here is a guide which tells you how you can make a
    retail version of xp-pro to accept your oem-key and howto make a clean install of XP-PRO

    http://www.club-vaio.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=36891&offset=0

    Hopefully this will help you
     
    nerd78, Jan 28, 2007
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