Mata BD-MLT UJ-220s Drivers

Hey guys. How's it going? I got a bit of a funky request. Due to a ruined hard drive needing replaced, I had to buy the restore disks from sony and all that jazz. Anyway, they didnt work (found out later they misnumbered the disks, pretty hilarious actually). So I ended up installing a 64 bit operating system (used to have 32 bit) and have been gathering drivers one by one. No compatibility issues so far, interestingly enough. Pretty much found everything except one, the dreaded blu ray drivers for the burner listed in the title. Anyway, I was curious as to whether the drivers I need to burn/read blu rays might be floating around somewhere? (sony website, as expected, is no help and it doesn't exist as far as the manufacturer is concerned.) If not, do you think there is anyway to get them off one of the three restore disks themselves by bypassing sony's vaio recovery center? The model is a vaio vgn fz 190, by the way.

I understand this is a bit obscure, but if anybody has any ideas I would truly appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance!

 

Many of the devices in Sony laptops are packed within the Sony Management Software. Have you tried running it?

cheers ...

 

No, I don't believe I have. What exactly is he Sony Management Software?

 

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGNFZ290

Verify the softwares/drivers against what you have installed. Pay attention on all Sony related utilities.

cheers ...

 

You shouldn't need any specific driver for your blu-ray drive. I have the same drive and Vista already has the driver for it. I use 32-bit version but I see no reason why 64-bit should be any different.

 

I forgot to mention, I have Seven, not vista.

 

If the Vista driver does not work, then it will be pretty tough - W7 has a way to go yet

Have you tried to see if manual updates from W7 can pick up something?

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I update often, but perhaps something will come in the future. Perhaps I'm not understanding the nature of drivers comepletely. Say I installed vista (dual booting with seven) could I perhaps just copy the driver in this finished state (as I understand it, it probably sits somewhere on the recovery disks in some sort of inconvenient form) to some sort of removable media, then remove vista and try manually installing the driver in seven?

EDIT:

Moreover, I'm sure the blu ray drive would work fine now that I've discovered the recovery disks were mislabeled and I simply need put them in in the reverse order, but then I'd have vista again, and I'm growing really fond of Seven. I understand others have a lot of difficulty with blu ray capability with seven, so I know I'm burrowing through some fairly uncharted territory, but it's become a sort of mission now. Hah.

 

Even with Seven Beta it shouldn't be a problem. Did you see your drive listed correctly at Device Manager?

 

I did at one time yes, but now it doesn't for some reason now that you ask, odd. Still functions the same either way now interestingly enough.

 

Which is to say, not at all.