Vista HDD Protection

Anybody have any luck with HDD protection?
I'm having Vista throw a needs to reboot to install messag when I try the older versions of the App...

The New App either says I don't have the right version (sz series 4 US) or says that I can't upgrade an app that isn't installed (EU).

of course UAC is disabled, along with virus protection.

any ideas?

Who was successful with this? Any insights?

 

I have pretty much everything installed and working on Vista. There are a couple of things you can try: (1) run the setup exe for the HDD protection utility (I assume you've already installed the HDD protection driver, which is a separate exe); when it shows you the failure message, don't yet close it, but rather go to C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Local\Temp and look for a temporary subfolder where the HDD protection utility installation unpacked itself; copy that folder somewhere, then close the waiting installation. After that run the setup straight from that unpacked folder, it worked for me; of course, to run that utility you either need to have the Vaio Control Center installed or go directly into the Program Files\Sony\HDD Protection folder and run it from there, i.e. there is no shortcut installed for the HDD protection, as well as for many other sub-utils of the Control Center. (2) If you've installed something (e.g. Vista could have installed (pulled from the internet) a Sony util during the Vista install) and then changed your default language using Regional Settings control panel, and then try to uninstall or update that util, it may complain that no compatible version found; in this case try either chaging your default system language back to what it was initially and uninstall, or, again, grab the unpacked installation from the temp folder and find there the MSI for your old language, then run that MSI; I've had a problem of installing the new UPEK fingerprint app, but solved it this way.
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first install the xp version and than update it with EU.