Please bear with my English since I'm not a native speaker. I'll try to explain as detailed as possible.
Right now I have a japanese Sony Vaio FZ. I bought it in Japan and brought it back to Sweden when I quit my job over there. Now, my father has an almost identical model. A swedish Sony Vaio FZ, but with a tad slower CPU. Thats the only different from what I can tell. And Swedish versus English (owner made) keyboard, of course. Both computers run Vista Home Premium.
Since I can't read everything in japanese, I would like to install a swedish OS on my japanese FZ, and tried to use my father's swedish recovery CD:s for his computer. But when the installation was about to start, it said something about wrong version and refused to install anything.
Is there a workaround of some kind for this? Is it even possible to do anything about it? Or is my japanese FZ forever locked to my pre-installed japanese Vista Home Premium?
(I also have a clean Vista CD for another older computer, but that one doesn't contain any drivers for my vaio what so ever. So I haven't even tried that one. Don't want to mess anything up, though.)
I don't need to do a semi-clean or clean install. Just want to be able to use the Swedish version.
Help would be appreciated... A alot!
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Most recovery disks only work for one pc, not every pc of the same model. What you can do is use a program called nLite to make a copy of your dad's recovery disk, which will rip out the security that checks for his pc's serial, burn it and install it on your laptop.
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Amazing if it works. Gonna try it!
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Had to use vLite for Vista, but the app couldn't find any files when I inserted the DVD
looks like it doesn't like recovery DVDs/CDs
Change Windows-version on FZ?
Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by bone, May 26, 2008.