Extracting Recovery Partition of Vaio P530 Netbook -- Want Microsoft Streets & Trips

I have a Vaio P530H. I came with Vista, but I downgraded it to XP, after first saving the recovery partition. There is nothing in it that I really care about keeping except the Microsoft Streets & Trips. I want to install it on my P530, but it is an OEM version. Although I have the fancy certificate from Microsoft with hologram and 25 character product key, I can't download the MSS&T installation from Microsoft or Sony. M$ has a 60 day free trial version you can download, but my OEM product key won't work on it. I need to be able to install from my restore partition, but I don't want to restore bloody Vista in the process.

So far, I have:

1. Saved the original restore partition and burned it to a DVD.

2. I installed Mod2Wim.

3. I explored the files and folders on the restore partition. In my case, I'm only interested in MSS&T, which turns out not to be in:

d:\data\2008\11\US_20081126000000000000000000006\MOD-Streets_and_Trips.mod

1,282,930,740 bytes
1,252,862 kilobytes
1,223 megabytes
1 gigabyte

where d:\ drive letter assigned to the restore partition.

4. Used Mod2Wim command #2 ("copy and process mod/sny files") to turn all of the MOD files into WIM files. This is where things go wrong.

5. Used Mod2Wim command #5 ("Mount Patched Files") extract the files and folders out of the WIMs it just made so that I can get my hands on the actual setup files you can run. However the WIM file it made from MOD-Streets_and_Trips.mod is defective somehow. This resulting WIM is 1.19 GB (1,282,930,740 bytes), so slightly bigger than the MOD file from which it was made. That seems logical. However, something is wrong with it. Microsoft's ImageX tool says that it is "invalid" and 7-Zip says it can't open the archive.

As I read the Mod2Wim batchfile, the actual process to convert the MOD file to a WIM file is:

FOR %%f IN (%dir%wim\*.*) DO %dir%hexalter.exe "%%f" 0x0=0x4d,0x53,0x57,0x49,0x4d,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xd0,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0d,0x01,0x00 >> %temp%\~mod2win.log

I don't get an error message and I can't find the %temp%\~mod2win.log file it creates. Maybe the Mod2Wim.bat deletes it before I can see it. Then again, I'm no guru when it comes to reading a batch file.

Bottom line: I want the friggin MSS&T OEM installer files. I paid for it. I own it. Nowhere in my license does it say that I'm required to run bloody Vista just to use it. If anyone can point out a method I can use to completely extract the contents of MOD-Streets_and_Trips.mod, I'd be very, very grateful.

 

My first thought is that either the file hasn't been patched or for some reason it's been incorrectly patched. Since it's just this one file, you could change the file header manually with a graphical hex editor where you could also verify the result. The details of how to edit the header manually are available here. All mod2wim really does is automate the whole process...