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    TX650P - Lost my "instant on" to a disk format, and have no original CDs :(

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by rohanhill, Aug 5, 2007.

  1. rohanhill

    rohanhill Newbie

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    I just purchased a used TX651p for school, and thought I would do the "smart thing" by reformating and reinstalling XP.

    The only problem is - I used my own XP disks, and didn't realize that in wiping out all of the partitions and reformatting, I would loose the "instant on" features. Unfortunately I was never given the original recovery CDs.

    Is there anything I can do? Sony doesn't have the "instant on" software on their downloads page (at least that I'm aware of).
     
    rohanhill, Aug 5, 2007
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  2. brewt

    brewt Notebook Guru

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    You can try using the ones from the TX850. You might need to do the model changing trick to force the installer to install it though.
     
    brewt, Aug 5, 2007
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