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    Urgent, please help - problem with VISTA language

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by b|lly, Jul 9, 2008.

  1. b|lly

    b|lly Notebook Deity

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    Hi all.

    I bought sony vaio abroad and it have foreign language + english language available. What I did before turning it ON, is installed the HDD into external USB drive and plugged it into my desktop to make a complete image of it with acronis image.

    When the process was completed I installed HDD back to laptop and turned it ON. Now I am missing the language selection. It always wants to install that foreign language which I dont want to...

    I installed it back to external USB and checked details. There are 3 partitions, a recovery one C and D... on the D files there are this directories:

    13.05.2008 19:05 <DIR> en_GB
    13.05.2008 19:05 <DIR> en_GBTools
    09.07.2008 18:06 32 MLS.ini
    13.05.2008 18:42 151 Model.s
    13.05.2008 19:05 <DIR> nl_NLTools
    13.05.2008 19:05 <DIR> Sony
    13.05.2008 19:05 <DIR> Tools

    Which seems to be that the both languages are there, still available, but I am unable to choose the correct one.

    Any ideas how to fix this?!? :confused:
     
    b|lly, Jul 9, 2008
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    I may be wrong, but if your Vista is in another native language, I don't think you can choose not to install the native language. The language selection just allows you to choose the primary language you want to use, but the native language would always get installed.
     
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    Ok, this was funny... I reinstalled image into the HDD and now it worked. Very strange...because the first time it went into the recovery console, where I had the foreign language...after that I was unable to go back.

    Anyhow...the problem with vista HOME is that it does not use the native language anymore, like XP..where you could install language files over the english version, you cannot do that with vista.

    only in ultimate thou
     
    b|lly, Jul 9, 2008
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