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    Recovering my TZ...JUST to partition my HDD

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Eiso, Jul 27, 2008.

  1. Eiso

    Eiso Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently bought a TZ150N as a good price finally. I installed Windows XP right away when I got it. Then I found out I couldn't partition my harddrive with Windows XP. So I heard Vista can do so, so I'm recovering my TZ. It takes forever to do so. I know I sound stupid of doing so...

    1) Is there any other way to partition my HDD for free without using Vista in XP?
    2) Is there a way in VAIO Recovery to just recover Vista without ANY of those softwares?

    Thanks a bunch!
     
    Eiso, Jul 27, 2008
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  2. scottyinco

    scottyinco Notebook Evangelist

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    I've never tried it, but Partition Logic is free and won some award:

    http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

    As for the bloatware, sorry, you can't easily restore without the bloatware. You can uninstall it, of course, and then run a utility like CCleaner to remove all the remnants from the registry.
     
    scottyinco, Jul 27, 2008
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  3. Eiso

    Eiso Notebook Enthusiast

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    I finally did it. I actually manage to click "cancel" right when the bloatware installation starts up. Then it reboots into Vista without restarting itself. I also just installed Windows XP, but is there a built-in microphone on TZ? I cannot manage to get it working even all drivers are installed...why?
     
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