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    VGN-NR398D Upgrade to Win7 success

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by CanadaDude, Oct 24, 2009.

  1. CanadaDude

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    My Sony VGN-NR398D of course came with Vista Home Premium.

    Some time ago, I successfully updated it to Vista Ultimate. The ONLY hitch to that was unplugging the ethernet cable until the final re-boot.

    Now, Sony does not recommend upgrading this laptop to Windows 7, and therefore has not released any official Windows 7 drivers.

    However, I successfully upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate on this machine with no problems other than ESET Security 4 needed to be un-installed and re-installed. All other apps on this machine seem to be running perfectly.

    This note written just so those wondering if they can/should/want to upgrade, there were no adverse affects on my install.
     
    CanadaDude, Oct 24, 2009
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