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    Clean install on SR

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by aLiX.G, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. aLiX.G

    aLiX.G Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I have ordered a vaio SR, and I'm already thinking of downgrading it to XP, or otherwise making a clean install of Vista. (I'm sorry if there are already topics about that)

    But I was wondering about how works/comes the recovery solution on this laptop.

    Thanks
     
    aLiX.G, Sep 22, 2008
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    sonoritygenius Goddess of Laptops

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    it has a recovery partition on hard drive, and when you first boot up u can use Vaio Recovery Manager to make Recovery CDs (DVD-Rs) but the partition and the CDs will have factory standard programs (i.e. bloatware included)

    Follow the VERY big Clean Install on SR thread - search the Sony subforum
     
    sonoritygenius, Sep 22, 2008
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  3. aLiX.G

    aLiX.G Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, this is exactly the answer I was expecting, Thanks.
     
    aLiX.G, Sep 22, 2008
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