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    How to Reinstall Windows

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by supanatral, Sep 19, 2007.

  1. supanatral

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    How Do I reinstall windows on my laptop? That may sound like a very stupid quesion but its more complicated then it sounds. If you look at my notebook then you'll notice that I have a sort of a minature notebook and it doesn't have cd rom in it and a windows vista cd wasn't included. What do I do if windows gets corupted? I have a windows vista disk because I happen to own one anyways, and I can use an external cd rom, but the issue is that there is no cmos settings or anything during startup.

    I mean, there has to be a way!!
     
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Laptops have a restore partition on them.
     
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    oh ya? well thats good. whats the keys im suppose to press to boot to the disk utilities?
     
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    F~, it's usually 2, 8 or 12. Sometimes it's ESC. I just jam the top row and hope I get lucky.
     
    Lithus, Sep 19, 2007
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