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    Original Sony Software

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Osi, Feb 28, 2008.

  1. Osi

    Osi Notebook Enthusiast

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    My Vaio is a week old and I managed to corrupt my MBR. Unaware of how to fix it properly, I fumbled around and ended up wiping the drive. Now I have reinstalled vista & all the necessary drivers from Sony's support site.

    However I want the original Sony software that came with the laptop. So my question is, can I find this software on the web somewhere? Or would it be on the rescue disk that Sony sells? Or would I just be better off trying to get BB to exchange it?

    I'm a broke college student who spent alot of dough (for me anyway) on this computer so I'd like it to have everything on it that I paid for. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
     
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  2. karimnacer

    karimnacer Notebook Consultant

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    Did you wipe the recovery partition as well?
    Did you make any recovery DVD before wiping all out?
    If you don't have the recovery partition nor the recovery DVDs then you could eventually get the rescue disks from sony, yes, they are basically the sme thing as the recovery DVDs you would have get if you burned them before wiping out your HDD.
     
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  3. Osi

    Osi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah the entire drive was set to 0's. Stupid but true. Used it twice before it got messed up so no backups. Didn't even install any software on the damn thing.

    After only a week I am already tired of Vista and Sony. Saving a hundred bucks was not worth this headache....I should have gone with the XP loaded Vostro.
     
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  4. karimnacer

    karimnacer Notebook Consultant

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    It depends on the hardware...
    I'm on a SZ650 loaded with Vista and I'm very happy of it, it couldn't have been better!
    Anyway, good luck...
    (you can still send it back?)
     
    karimnacer, Feb 28, 2008
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