Sony VGN-N220E Windows Vista recovery

1-I have this new Sony VGN-N220E which is preloaded with the Vista operating system.
2-For the reason of compatibilty , I decide to downgrade to XP, then I discover that (in XP) some of the drivers are not working (Network, wirreless),
3- contacted Sony they advice me to go back to Vista (they said this laptop is made for Vista).
I don't have recovery disk
4-I tried to recover by pressing F10 but couldn't
5-Is their anyway to recover back to Visat without a recovery CD.?

thanks

 

Not unless you have a recovery partition that came preloaded on your hard drive, and you didn't erase it when installing XP.

Otherwise the Wireless networking drivers should be easy to track down....

what kind of a wireless card is in your notebook?

 

1- Their is a partition E, I didn't delet it,
2- When I was installing the XP it asks me where to install it I choose C in a new directory c:\winxp
3- I don't know what type of wireless ,& network card on the laptop.

thanks for the help

 

I would contact Sony support and ask them, it's possible that you deleted the shortcut to the Recovery Partition when you installed XP as well. Thus it's possible that you still have the partition but no way to access it, they will be able to help you better than I (hopefully)

Would you rather still keep XP or are you trying to just piut Vista back on it?

 

1- If I managed to sucessfully install the XP (solve the wireless, & ethernet drivers) I will keep the XP
2- The other option is to recover the vista.
3- right now I am trying to recover the Vista

thanks again

 

From the DOS I can access E which have some directory one of it is SONY, SOURCES I tried to cd to E:\SOURCES but it tells me access is denied

 

It looks like VGN-N220E uses Atheros Wireless adapter according to their spec. Why don't you try to install the driver for it? I know my MacBook Pro uses the Atheros Wireless adapter as well and there is XP Driver for it which came with BootCamp. You could probably find the driver on the internet.

 

Atheros network driver work with VGN-N220E, but I couldnt find other drivers, so I just go for restoring original factory system.


If you want to restore your computer's C: drive to that of the original factory condition (with Vista on it), just try to boot to recovery center (press Delete when restarting), it will allow you to restore the whole C: drive to the original state

good luck