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    Help Regarding Sony.wim File

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by darxide, Nov 12, 2010.

  1. darxide

    darxide Newbie

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    I had purchased Sony Vaio CR363 2 years back(it came with Windows Vista Home Premium)
    My problem is that i mistakenly deleted the recovery partition(a friend of mine did that just to increase some more space)
    But good thing was we had created the Recovery DVDs before deleting the recovery disk. But now the problem is that my DVD drive is not working!
    I created Sony.wim file from the recovery disks(mounting them virtually) and now the problem is whenever i try to apply that Wim image to my C:\ drive, it gives me an error "The files are corrupt or unreadable"
    Someone please help me out what to do now!
     
    darxide, Nov 12, 2010
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  2. Sapph1re

    Sapph1re Notebook Enthusiast

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    Download a Vista Home Premium image, use your notebook's key to install it and manually download the drivers.

    That's assuming the DVD drive is working and only the image is corrupt.
     
    Sapph1re, Nov 12, 2010
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  3. darxide

    darxide Newbie

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    Thanx for the help bro ..Just want to confirm if i install Vista Home premium from any DVD and try to activate it with the OEM key(the one printed on the sticker, at the bottom of my laptop). Will it get activated with that key????
     
    darxide, Nov 13, 2010
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