Utility problem with Vaio FZ

I bought my VGN-FZ90HS in Japan with the intention to remove Japanese software to install English Visa Home Premium. I know that the warranty will void by this act, but as I don't like the installed Japanese Vista, I had to do it anyway. In drive C, there was a copy of the drivers and those I copied away before the installation. Later, all the drivers worked fine; however, Vaio utilities software is missing. That mean losing many of the functions of the laptop included camera utilities, AV mode..etc. I tried to download English version of Vaio Utilities from US website (My computer is equivalent to the Vaio VGN-FZ180E) but these files don't work in Japanese computer as they don't recognize, in the first confirmation check, the series name VGN-FZ90HS sold inside Japan. Sonystyle (Japan) provides neither English nor Japanese versions of these software in their support site. They are only present in the hidden partition of my laptop among the other restoration software. In addition, it is not easy to communicate with Sony support (Japan) in English. I appreciate your help greatly by providing any ideas on where to get an English version of the Viao Utilities (In addition to any other originally delivered software) installable in my laptop.

 

You need to change the model.txt in order to install VGN TZ180E drivers.

Check this link,

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=100991

 

dear ash i am in the same boat.
can i just confirm you did a clean install and everything is running perfectly.
you just copied the drivers from c and then pasted them back after the new os and everything is running fine. what about stuff like windvd etc

 

what about the japanese software.

 

Dear ASH148,
Thanks for the tip, however, I failed to find a file with the name Model.txt anywhere in the whole computer

 

The only available option in such a case is clean install. No upgrade option. To install, I formatted the drive, then installed English Vista Home Premium, then installed the drivers one by one. The drivers were originally kept in driver c, so before fomatting you need to copy then in external medium.
I didn't touch the hidden partition, so it is still available for restoration of the original japanese vista and computer settings and utilities

 

gharnoug

i found the model text file and changed it but i still get an error message with the same not intended for this computer.
how did you install the recovery utility surely the partition is useless without the utility to access it.
ps
c/windows/model.txt

 

dear ash
changed the text file and altered security settings but still i am getting the error message. how did you do it.

 

Finally I manage to do it all... Great!!! Now AV mode is working fine.. When modifying Model.txt, make sure that security setting deny "write" for all users, adminstrator and system

 

To recover the computer back to factory setting using the data stored in the hidden partition, you dont need to install anything, just press F10 during reboot and then follow prompts.

 

you got everything working i am so jealous. i am tryied i set the security as recommended but still the same message but the text file itself stays ammended.

 

Marques, how do you want to modify the file? i.e. what will be the content? may be I can help in that.

 

the file modifies and stays modifies. ie changes my pc model to the downloaded fz190. but the appropraite software still gives me an error. not intended for this computer.