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    Sony CR Vista REINSTALL

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by skynyrd, Jul 29, 2008.

  1. skynyrd

    skynyrd Notebook Guru

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    Hi there,

    I have a Sony Vaio VGN-CR123e\b that came with a Vista Home Edition in a single partiton.

    I have a Vista Professional CD and I'm planning to format my notebook, create another partition and make a vista professional clean install.

    What drivers do I need to download before doing this reinstall?

    Thanks
     
    skynyrd, Jul 29, 2008
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  2. rubenvb

    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    Vista Home and Professional editions don't exist. What is the exact type of disc you have? Didn't Sony give you a recovery disc with os + drivers?

    Are you keeping the old install or completely erasing your disc?
     
    rubenvb, Jul 29, 2008
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  3. skynyrd

    skynyrd Notebook Guru

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    I'm sorry. I have Windows Vista Home Premium running right now and I have a Windows all in one DVD. I want to install Windows Vista Ultimate.
    I think the DVD has only the OS with no drivers.

    I didn't get any recovery disc from sony when I bought my refurbished notebook from amazon.

    I can erase my disc.

    Thanks
     
    skynyrd, Jul 29, 2008
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    sachin16 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i recently reinstalled my CR590 CTO OS.
    i really wanted to partition my 225GB HDD (233 total with 8 GB for recovery part) into 100 and 125 GB parts. I didn't even required any recovery dvd since i used recovery partition on my HDD and it did everything for me. only took less than 1 h to finish everything. now i have a very clean system with 100 GB for Vista and 125 GB partition for my own data storage. Recovery partition is still there intact.
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    C2D T9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB cache), 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 250 GB 5400 HDD, Fingerprint Reader, DVD+-RW (DL), Bluetooth 2.1, Wireless abgn
     
    sachin16, Jul 30, 2008
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  5. skynyrd

    skynyrd Notebook Guru

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    I can't do that because I want to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate or Vista Business. I need to know if the drivers are easy to find and re-install. Thank you anyway.
     
    skynyrd, Aug 1, 2008
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