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Installing Vista on new hdd from recovery disks

Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by bitaites, Feb 13, 2009.

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Hello all,

Been nosing around the forum to try to find the answer before asking, but i really couldn't find any, so here goes!

I just got a new 7200rpm 320gb from WD to replace my old drive . I replaced it, boot the laptop (VGN-CR31S) as usual, and put the first recovery DVD in the tray. Unfortunately, when it gets to the options menu, I can't get it to install, it keeps asking for the right volume or cd/dvd. I thought the recovery dvds would be able to install everything from scratch ...

How should i install the oem OS on my new hard drive?

Thanks in advance!

bitaites, Feb 13, 2009

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Those recovery disks should be able to - the issue might be...
1) The drive is not showing up in the BIOS
2) The DVD is messed up.

Personally though I would just do a fresh load with a standard Vista OEM disc, problem is that is not an option for everyone.

If you have a desktop you can look into cloning the drive from the old to the new.

Hep!, Feb 13, 2009

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Problem solved Thanks a bunch mate, after all it was only the discs that were corrupted!

bitaites, Feb 13, 2009

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