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.

    New Vaio F12 - Want to Switch out HD and Clean Install

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by eyal8r, Aug 14, 2010.

  1. eyal8r

    eyal8r Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    71
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hey guys-
    I just got a F12 from Costco- smoking deal I think. I just finished booting it up and now going to create the Recovery Discs. Once that's complete, I'd like to yank out the HD that came with it (500gb 5400rpm) and throw in a 7200rpm and do a clean install.

    I've seen a lot of talk out there about doing this- but a ton of confusing info as well. I know with my old HP, you had to replace the HD with the same size/speed HD to use their recovery discs. I hope that's not the same with Sony.

    Will I run into any problems doing this? I read that I can download a full version of Windows 7 from Microsoft, burn a dvd of it- and do a clean install using my existing s/n that's on my laptop.

    Can someone point me in the right direction here?

    I appreciate the help!
     
    eyal8r, Aug 14, 2010
    #1
  2. danielh97

    danielh97 Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    33
    Messages:
    95
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    danielh97, Aug 14, 2010
    #2
  3. Rachel

    Rachel Busy Bee

    Reputations:
    1,369
    Messages:
    4,245
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    106
    Moved......
     
    Rachel, Aug 14, 2010
    #3