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    Drivers for clean install from Recovery Partition.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by mute1, Mar 2, 2007.

  1. mute1

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    If your interested in obtaining the necessary drivers from your systems recovery partition I have your answer. This should be independant of model as long as Sony uses a recovery partition then you should be able to get at the info.

    By way of example I have a Sony SZ160P, I'm dual booting XP PRO and Ubuntu Ultimate edition. This is a downloadable torrent 1.2GB in size. It will operate as either a Live CD (Means OS runs from CD on boot, no install necessary) or after booting from live CD you can install to HDD. In order to get to the drivers you need to install Ubuntu and then Google "ntfs-3g Ubuntu install" this is a package that will allow to both read and write to NTFS partitions from within Linux. After installing you will want to mount the 5GB (in the SZ160Ps case) partition. This will allow you to copy the drivers to a partition that is assessable from within Windows and allows you to burn them to CD for safe keeping. There are plenty of guides out there on how to install Ubuntu on a Windows box so I'm not going to re-invent the wheel for you but here is a link to the one I used. http://ubuntusoftware.info/
     
    mute1, Mar 2, 2007
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