The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    How to reinstall Vista on the Sony vaio FW?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by owais, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. owais

    owais Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    15
    Messages:
    902
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    How can i reinstall windows vista on my Vaio?

    sony didnt give me a vista disc and i dont know if/how the recovery discs do it.

    i want to reinstall windows vista completely on the sony vaio fw.

    thanks
     
    owais, Aug 14, 2008
    #1
  2. hehe299792458

    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    175
    Messages:
    1,571
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    the recovery discs are images of the factory default settings/program. You'll get back all the bloatware (ie Norton). You might want to cough cough try tor... cough cough rent sites and search for your version of Vista. Try to find original discs and use your serial on the bottom of your notebook to activate
     
    hehe299792458, Aug 14, 2008
    #2
  3. huntnyc

    huntnyc Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    150
    Messages:
    543
    Likes Received:
    9
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Try this thread. it may do the trick but can you let us know if it is successful or whatever happens. first make your recovery disks and back up any of your data.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=146033

    Gary
     
    huntnyc, Aug 14, 2008
    #3
  4. owais

    owais Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    15
    Messages:
    902
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30

    so i need to download a version of vista.
    i got a cough cough torr cough cough ent site version and if i ever need to reinstall vista, i can use that?
    then download all the drivers?

    thanks
     
    owais, Aug 14, 2008
    #4