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.

    SONY VAIO FW Series Recovery Disc

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by parakate, Feb 10, 2009.

  1. parakate

    parakate Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    9
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I just ordered the Sony Vaio FW series. The agent said the notebook don't come with any Windows Vista Home Premium x64 DVD's as back up and i need to burn the recovery disc from the OS once i receive the laptop.

    1. Is this the standard practice of shipment.

    2. If i am to create recovery disc from the laptop, and then at a later time format and do an install from the recovery back up disk's, does the recovery install the old factory shipped drivers & software by default. If so is there a way to get rid of this.

    3. What do i do if i want to do a clean install of the OS with the new drivers from net.

    Your speedy reply would be appreciated.

    Thanks
     
    parakate, Feb 10, 2009
    #1
  2. tovani

    tovani Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    68
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    esupport.sonystyle.com Google it,
    Email to the customer service, you would be satisfied
     
    tovani, Feb 10, 2009
    #2
  3. cristyle

    cristyle Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    You have a recovery partition. Pressing F10 on boot you have the possibility to make a fresh install. Of course you'll still have some trial crap but not as much as you receive from the start. I did this and I'm quite satisfied with the speed. By the way, why not making an image (use ghost8) and you can recover your OS at any time in less than 25min.
    I have a whitey, japanese version with digital dual tv-tuner included and media center remote control (available only in Japan). As well a 200GB/7200rpm HDD.
     
    cristyle, Mar 2, 2009
    #3