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    How to reinstall default OS

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by IHateMayonnaise, Feb 2, 2008.

  1. IHateMayonnaise

    IHateMayonnaise Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    Recently, Vista on my SZ450N became corrupted and was unable to boot to the GUI. The recovery menu came up, scanned the memory, hard drive etc.. for errors, and then it allowed me to completely reinstall Vista from the recovery partition. While it was doing that, I made the mistake of closing the lid...which put the computer to sleep and stopped the install when it was almost complete. Vista was not functional as a result, and have since been unable to make the recovery menu come back up so that i could redo the process.

    I tried formatting the main partition (leaving the recovery partition intact) to see if that would trigger it..but it just gives me the NTLDR OS missing error (or whatever it is, i can't remember). Anyway, I'm running XP now, and would very much like to reinstall Vista so that I can use some of the cool functions this computer has (and have a legitimate version of windows installed). My computer did not come with a recovery disk. Any thoughts? Thanks!
     
    IHateMayonnaise, Feb 2, 2008
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Get recovery discs from Sony.
     
    Lithus, Feb 3, 2008
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  3. pdudas

    pdudas Notebook Consultant

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    Press f10 or F11 at boot (I'm not sure which is the good one).
    It gives you the recovery console from recovery partition.
     
    pdudas, Feb 3, 2008
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    karimnacer Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, its F10, press it, it will load some tools, select reinstall C partition or something like that, then its ok!
     
    karimnacer, Feb 3, 2008
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