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    Reinstalling to XP

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by xxgunnerxx, May 30, 2007.

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    xxgunnerxx Newbie

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    hi guys, i just bought my sony vaio c series notebook. i got it for a very good deal and it even came with xp. regardless if its xp or vista i still want to do a clean install and get rid of all the bloatware. no recovery cd came with my laptop and when i read the manual the recovery partition is to reinstall everything back with the bloatware. how can i reinstall xp and get rid of all the bloatware? are there any guides that will allow me to do this? also a slight problem is that i have an xp cd, but this machine came with xpmce.....

    thanks!
     
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    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    If your Win XP CD is Home Edition there would be no point since MCE is basically XP Professional with a Media extension add-on. But if it is XP Pro then that would be wiser.

    Mike.
     
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    azntiger1000 Notebook Deity

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    There is a way to cheat with using the recovery cds. There are couple people in this forum did it and I did it too. I did it with my Vista recovery cds.

    You put in the cd that Sony asks you to back up. Run the recovery cds and when it asks you to put in the second disk select no which will just boot windows with nothing installed, but Windows and your drivers. I think I had one bloatware and which was Napster that I had to uninstall it myself. Other then that, it was really simple and clean.
     
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    xxgunnerxx Newbie

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    ah i see! but if i have the recovery partition on my 120gb hd, then wouldn't it access those? or do i remove that partition?
     
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    azntiger1000 Notebook Deity

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    I bought a new hard drive because I wanted hte 7200rpm since Sony doesnt offer them. So I still have my partition in the old hdd, but I would get rid of it since it takes up like 7+ gigs. I would make 2 copies of the dvd recovery disc just in case one of your copies gets messed up or something.
     
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    xxgunnerxx Newbie

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    thanks for your help, i will try to do what you said asap.i have a last question, if you could answer, if i register at the sony site do i have a life time vaio updates available or only for the duration of my warranty?
     
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    azntiger1000 Notebook Deity

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    I believe so. But eventually Sony will probably stop giving out updates for that certain brand or line of computers. I think this is most cases for all computer companies. They'll probably give you updates for 6 years and then they will stop updating that computer.
     
    azntiger1000, May 30, 2007
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